. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . of some of its wars in the eighteenth century,and since the nineteenth century the town has become better 1 The Arab pronunciation of the ^Gk. Kayu^aSTjj/Tj, seelsidorus Chara-name of the town varies between cenus, Mansiones Parthicae, 5, and Kirmisin. Mtiller, Paris, 1855, 1882 ; and cf. de 2 Yakut, p. 438. For the tradition Morgan, Mission Scientifique, 2. Bahram IV, see Justi, Grundr. * For the itinerary of Pietro dellairan. Fhilol. 2. 525-526, and for the Vall
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . of some of its wars in the eighteenth century,and since the nineteenth century the town has become better 1 The Arab pronunciation of the ^Gk. Kayu^aSTjj/Tj, seelsidorus Chara-name of the town varies between cenus, Mansiones Parthicae, 5, and Kirmisin. Mtiller, Paris, 1855, 1882 ; and cf. de 2 Yakut, p. 438. For the tradition Morgan, Mission Scientifique, 2. Bahram IV, see Justi, Grundr. * For the itinerary of Pietro dellairan. Fhilol. 2. 525-526, and for the Valles journey in this region, seereign of Kobad (Kavadh), 2. 531. the edition of Pinkerton, 9. 16 THE CITY OF KERMANSHAH 231 known to the West through trade and travel, although asregards familiarity its name can bear no comparison with Tehe-ran and Isfahan. Many persons, in fact, know of Kerman-shah only through the rugs for which the city and its vicinityonce were famous, even if the rug manufacture is almost a lostindustry now in Kermanshah itself and the carpets which areexported through its customs to-day come mostly from otherparts of Persia and are merely shipped by way of this dis-tributing-centre, i Commercially the city of Kermanshah is favorably situated,as it lies on the main caravan route between Persia and Meso-potamia, being nearly equidistant from Teheran and Baghdad,two hundred and twenty miles from the latter and two hundredand fifty miles from the former. The town enjoys the advan-tages of a busy trade, especially on commission, and its popu-lation is now reported at fully sixty thousand, the inhabitantsbeing largely of Kurdish blood, besides Persians, Turks,som
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