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Caravanserai, Iranian - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kleiss, Wolfram
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An Iranian caravanserai (lit., "caravan inn"), like those elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, is a building for the lodging of individual wayfarers and travelling groups, including pilgrims, trade caravans, and military contingents. An extensive network of caravan routes, with accompanying buildings, developed in Islamic lands and stretched from North Africa to Arabia and Anatolia and to India, via Iran and Afghanistan; in the latter two, this network is still largely identical with the modern trans-regional highways. In Iran, caravanserais were generally referred to as ribāṭ and
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kleiss, Wolfram
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