"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٨‎٢] (٣٨٨/١٣٥)

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Account of the Kourehs, or Districts, in the Province of Fcus^
or Pars.
T here are five Kourehs in this province, the most considerable
of which is the Koureh of Istakhar: oj<3
Ardeshir Dereh, in which are the cities of Shiraz and
Siraf. Jawr jj =^ also belongs to this district of Ardeshir,
because it was built by him, and was his capital, Arghan
is also a large city. The Koureh S hap our is the
smallest of these districts of Pars: the town is called after Sha-
pour, who built it, in the vicinity of j b" Cazeroun.
. But there are five places in Pars, which they call Zem *. The
signification of this word is, a tribe, or race (Arab. One
of these is more considerable than the others—the
Zem Heilouieh: this is called Zem Senjan. The
second is the c-yJ I Zem of Ahmed hen Leith.
it is called Zem\ * ^ The third is called
* In the Eton MS. there is a title in red ink prefixed to this passage—
The Zemoums of Fars •" an extraordinar)^ plural of Zem. As this section, and that
which follows, afford some curious matter, they are given in the original Persian, at
the end of this volume.
t The word following Zem in my MS. is rendered illegible by a blot of ink j and in