- The parasang, also
known as a
farsakh (from Arabic), is a
historical Iranian unit of
walking distance, the
length of
which varied according to terrain...
- Ṭāriq gave the
radius of the
Earth as 1,050
farsakhs, the
diameter of the Moon and
Mercury as 5,000
farsakhs (4.8
Earth radii), and the
diameter of the...
- Oghuz, al-Muqaddasi also ****ociates it with
Otrar and says that it was "24
farsakhs further up the Syr Darya". On the
basis of all of this information, the...
-
Leila Farsakh (Arabic: ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a
Palestinian political economist who was born in
Jordan and is a
Professor of
Political Science at University...
- Map of the
Khurasan Road from
Baghdad to Rayy,
according to Ibn Khordadbeh, with
distances in
farsakhs...
-
Uddin at Hansi. On
receiving this news Qutb-ud-din
Aibak marched twelve farsakhs, i.e.,
about 40
miles (64 km) in one night.
Jatwan raised the
siege of...
- The
distance the
arrow travels varies: in one, it is a
thousand leagues (
farsakhs), and in another,
forty days' walk. In several, the
arrow traveled from...
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Chahar Farsakh (Persian: چهارفرسخ, also
Romanized as Chahār
Farsakh and Chehār
Farsakh; also
known as Chahār
Farsang and Chehār Farsang) is a village...
-
outside the capital,
where meadows and
vineyards extended for some 20
farsakhs (c. 60 miles).
While customs duties were
imposed on traders, and tribute...
-
diameter of the
Earth in the Tarkīb al-aflāk of Yaqūb ibn Tāriq, of 2,100
farsakhs,
appears to be
derived from the
estimate of the
diameter of the
Earth in...
