Gulashkird

Gulashkird also known as Faryjab or Paryjab or Valashgird^[1] was an important town in Kerman province of Iran during the Middle Ages as a station on the trade routes from the Persian Gulf and Persia to India and also into Central Asia.^[2]

Today the town lies at modern Faryjab, a small village north east of Bandar Abbas, south of Jiroft and 50 km north of Mantijan, near the town of Manujan and the Rudkhanah i Duzdi River.

Historically the town was a strongly fortified town with a castle known as Kftshah and was serviced by quanats that allowed the area to grow Indigo,^[3] oranges, date palms^[4] and Grain,^[5] It was mentioned by Arab geographers Mukaddasi and Yaqut al-Hamawi^[6] and Marco Polo.^[7]^[8]

The village has been suggested^[9] as a possible location for the lost city of Alexandria Carmania, founded by Alexander the Great months before he died in Babylon.^[10] Indeed, Greek pottery has been found in the area.^[11]

References

^ Lewis Vance Cummings, Alexander the Great (Grove Press, 2004) page 402.
^ E. H. Warmington, The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India (Cambridge University Press Archive, 2014) page 24.
^ Lands of the Eastern Caliphate Archived 2015-06-19 at the Wayback Machine.
^ 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., 2010)page 318.
^ E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran: Seleucid Parthian (Cambridge University Press, 1983) page 773.
^ Yakut (iv, 939)
^ Travels of Marco Polo Vol2.
^ The Travels of Marco Polo vol 1, chapter16.
^ G. Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Cambridge University Press 2011. page 317
^ Lewis Vance Cummings, Alexander the Great (Grove Press, 2004)page 402 p402
^ Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, A History of Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Taylor & Francis, 1949