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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KHUNSAR , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

PERSIA

Persia, sometimes belonging to the See also:

province of See also:

ISFAHAN (older form Ispahan)

Isfahan, at others to See also:

IRAK

Irak, 96 m. N.W. of Isfahan, in 33° 9' N., 5o° 23' E., at an See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of 7600 ft. Pop., about 10,000. It is picturesquely situated on both sides of a narrow valley through which the Khunsar See also:

RIVER

River, a stream about 12 ft. wide, flows in a See also:

north-See also:

east direction to Kuom. The town and its See also:

FINE

fine gardens and orchards straggle some 6 m. along the valley with a mean breadth of scarcely See also:

HALF

half a mile. There is a See also:

GREAT

great profusion of See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit, the apples yielding a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

cider which, however, does not keep longer than a See also:

month. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is cool in summer and See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold in See also:

winter. There are five caravanserais, three mosques and a See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

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