عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
ALei1147
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Astarābādh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Matthee, Rudolph P.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
(839 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Astarābādh (modern Gurgan), historically a province as well as a town, is located in what the ancient Greeks called Hyrcania, adjacent to the Persian province of Māzandarān. The city, some thirty kilometres east of the Caspian Sea, has origins going back to Achaemenid times (550-330 B.C.E.). Sparsely mentioned in the classical Islamic sources, Astarābādh comes to life in sources from the Ṣafavid period (907-1135/1501-1722). Herbert estimated the number of households in the early eleventh/seventeenth century at about two thousand, which would imply about
SET
Title
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
International Standard Serial Number
9789004356665
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islam.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Matthee, Rudolph P.
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Article]
275578
a
Y
