Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi
Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi | |
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Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi | |
Coordinates: 26°31′27″N 57°08′33″E / 26.52417°N 57.14250°ECoordinates: 26°31′27″N 57°08′33″E / 26.52417°N 57.14250°E | |
Country | Iran |
Province | Hormozgan |
County | Minab/Jiroft County |
Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
• Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi also known as the Nahr-az-Zankan River was a river in Medieval Southern Persia. Mentioned by Marco Polo,[1][2] Istakhri [3] and by Yaqut al-Hamawi[4] Its name means River of Robbers.
Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi was also the name of a village on the river with about 500 inhabitants, known in colonial times.[5] It is in the Jiroft area, possibly a tributary of the Minab River.
References
- ↑ Travels of Marco Polo Vol2.
- ↑ Travels of Marco Polo the venetian.
- ↑ Guy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur (Cosimo, Inc., 1 Jan 2010)page 318.
- ↑ Yakut, iv, 939.
- ↑ Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870 (Eastern persia) vo1
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