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Identifier: russiawithtehera00karl (find matches)
Title: Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker

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e; branch ofthe Imperial Bank of Persia), a town of 30,000 inhab., founded inthe 3rd or 4th cent. A.D. In the 16th century it was the residenceof Shah Tahmasp I., and it is said to have had at that time 200,000inhabitants. On the E. side of the town lies the burial mosque ofHussein, son of the eighth Imam, All III. er-Riza (p. 511). About 80 M. to the N.E. of Kazvin, amonj? the mountains round thesource of the Shah-rud, lies Alamut (Vultures Nest), the old fort of theAssassins, which from 1090 to 1256 v/as the seat of the Old Man of theMountain. From Kazvin a highroad leads 8.W. to (278 V.) Hamadan. The road from Kazvin to Teheran leads S.Pl over an elevatedplateau and is somewhat uninteresting. The stations are: 247 Y.(31/2 farsakh) Kevendeh, 270 Y. (4 farsakh) Kishldk, 295 V. (4farsakh)Yeff/j-i-hndm (4080 ft.), 315 Y. (31/2 farsakh) Hisarek (4125 ft.),339 V. (4 farsakh) Shahahdd (3275 ft.). Finally we come to (361 Y.;374 farsakh) 7eheran. Our first view is of a sea of fiat roofs and
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