Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . m information in theolder Mohammedan writers. Ibn Rostah (c. 900) speaks of Ar-distan as a fine city, and says that Anushirvan ( the Sasanianking Chosroes I, 531-579) was born there.* Istakhri (951)states, Ardistan is a walled city, every quarter of which is Two days was the time occupied ed. De Goeje, Bihl. Qeog. Arab. 3. 390. by Josafa Barbaro in tlie fifteenth cen- The etymology is not correct; see be- tury, for he says: From thense [ low, p. 407. In contradistinction to
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . m information in theolder Mohammedan writers. Ibn Rostah (c. 900) speaks of Ar-distan as a fine city, and says that Anushirvan ( the Sasanianking Chosroes I, 531-579) was born there.* Istakhri (951)states, Ardistan is a walled city, every quarter of which is Two days was the time occupied ed. De Goeje, Bihl. Qeog. Arab. 3. 390. by Josafa Barbaro in tlie fifteenth cen- The etymology is not correct; see be- tury, for he says: From thense [ low, p. 407. In contradistinction to from Nelstanak] two other dales io- Mokaddasis praise of the people of ney is Hardistan, a little towne that Ardistan I may cite a Persian writer of maketh a Y^ howses (ed. Hakluyt, 49. the seventeenth century, Sadik Isfahani 83). (p. 62), who reports that the people of ?^ See preceding note, and for the this place are, it is said, prone to exoes- present estimate of 12,000, cf. Sykes, sive anger and violence. op. cit. p. 157. 4 Ibn Rostah, ed. De Goeje, 7. 153, 2 Freely rendered from Mokaddasi, X
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