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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 756 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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capital of the above See also:province, situated in 30° 17' N., 56° 59' E., at an See also:elevation of 6too ft. Its See also:population is estimated at 6o,000, including about 2000 Zoroastrians, too See also:Jews, and a few Shikarpuri See also:Indians. Kerman has See also:post and See also:telegraph offices (Indo-See also:European Telegraph See also:Department), See also:British and See also:Russian consulates, and an agency of the Imperial See also:bank of See also:Persia. The neighbouring districts produce little See also:grain and have to get their supplies for four or five months of the See also:year from districts far away. A traveller has stated that it was easier to get a See also:mann (61 lb) of See also:saffron at Kerman than a mann of See also:barley for his See also:horse, and in 1879 See also:Sir A. Houtum-Schindler was ordered by the authorities to curtail his excursions in the province " because his horses and mules See also:ate up all the stock." Kerman manufactures See also:great quantities of carpets and felts, and its carpets are almost unsurpassed for richness of texture and durability. The old name of the See also:city was Guvashir. Adjoining the city on hills rising 400 to 500 ft. above the See also:plain in the See also:east are the ruins of two See also:ancient forts with walls built of See also:sun-dried bricks on See also:stone See also:foundations. Some of the walls are in perfect See also:condition. Among the mosques in the city two deserve See also:special See also:notice, one the Masjid i Jama, a See also:foundation of the Muzaffarid ruler Mubariz ed din Mahommed dating from A.H. 1349, the other the Masjid i Malik built by Malik Kaverd Seljuk (1041-1072).

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