(a) After the village of Serab.
(b) Mountains.
(c) A Kurdish product, named after a city.
(d) More commonly called Sarakhs, after the city by that name, which is situated on the border line between Persia and Turkestan and within a few miles of Afghanistan. They are so called because the people who make them formerly came from this district.
(e) A corruption of the Persian word "roules," which means a pearl.
(f) A province.
(g) A district. Joshaghan is the English way of spelling it and Djoshaghan the French way of spelling it.
(h) A corruption of the word "Sarawan," the name of a district in Persia just south of Feraghan. The name has no connection whatever with the "Saraband Dance."
(i) Terms used for the different grades of rugs from the Sultanabad district.
(j) Laristan is a province in the Kirman district just south of Niris.
(k) Named after the city of Herat, which is not situated in Khorasan at all, but is across the Persian border in Afghanistan. They take this name for two reasons: first, because they are woven by people who formerly lived in Herat, but who, owing to political disturbances, settled in Khorasan; and second, because they are marketed at Herat.
(h) A corruption of the word "Sarawan," the name of a district in Persia just south of Feraghan. The name has no connection whatever with the "Saraband Dance."
(i) Terms used for the different grades of rugs from the Sultanabad district.
(j) Laristan is a province in the Kirman district just south of Niris.
(k) Named after the city of Herat, which is not situated in Khorasan at all, but is across the Persian border in Afghanistan. They take this name for two reasons: first, because they are woven by people who formerly lived in Herat, but who, owing to political disturbances, settled in Khorasan; and second, because they are marketed at Herat.
| { | Angora | { | Kir Shehr | |||
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| { | Brousa | { | Oushak | |||
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| { | { | Karaman | ||||
| { | { | Konieh proper | ||||
| { | Anatolian | { | Konieh | { | Mujur | |
| { | { | { | Ladik (a) | |||
| { | { | { | Yuruk (b) | |||
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| { | { | { | Ak-Hissar | |||
| { | { | { | Anatolian proper | |||
| { | { | { | Bergama | |||
| Turkish | { | { | Smyrna | { | Ghiordes | |
| { | { | Kulah | ||||
| { | { | Meles (c) | ||||
| { | { | Makri | ||||
| { | { | Smyrna proper | ||||
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| { | Kurdistan | { | Mosul | { | Mosul proper | |
(a) A corruption of the word "Laodicea."
(b) The word "Yuruk" means mountaineer.
(c) A corruption of the word "Milassa."
(a) A corruption of the word "Laodicea."
(b) The word "Yuruk" means mountaineer.
(c) A corruption of the word "Milassa."
| { | Daghestan proper | |||||
| { | Caucasia | { | Daghestan | { | Derbend | |
| { | { | Kabistan (a) | ||||
| { | { | Tchetchen, Chichi, Tzitzi (b) | ||||
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| { | { | Baku proper | ||||
| Caucasian | { | { | Baku | { | Shemakha, Soumak (c) | |
| { | { | { | Kashmir (d) | |||
| { | { | { | Shirvan (e) | |||
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| { | Transcaucasia | { | Elizabethpol | { | Genghis, Ganja (f) | |
| { | { | Karabagh (e) | ||||
| { | Erivan | { | Kazak (g) | |||
(a) Should be Kubistan or Kuban, as they are made at Kuba.
(b) Named after a tribe of people who inhabit the mountains north of Daghestan.
(c) A corruption of the word "Shemakha."
(d) Sometimes called Kashmir from the resemblance of the under side to that of Cashmere shawls.
(e) A province.
(f) Named after a tribe of Turkomans who live in the vicinity of Elizabethpol. Sometimes called Ganja, after the ancient name of Elizabethpol.
(g) Named after a tribe of Nomads inhabiting the hills around Lake Goktcha.