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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
ALei2903
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Kish - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Floor, Willem
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
GENERAL NOTES
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(1,592 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Kish (Ar., Qays) is an Iranian island important in the past (in trade) and the present (in tourism and trade). It lies in the Persian Gulf, nineteen kilometres off Bandar-i Charak. During the fifth-eighth/eleventh-fourteenth centuries it was the emporium through which trade from and to India was controlled. Thereafter it was a typical Persian Gulf island, whose inhabitants fished, pearled, and traded. By 1970 it became an important tourist centre, and it has been, since 1992, a free-trade zone. Kish, in English sources variously called
SET
Title
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
International Standard Serial Number
9789004356665
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islam.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Floor, Willem
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Article]
275578
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