"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٨‎٣] (٣٨٨/١٣٦)

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Zem Ahmed hen Saleh. The fourth is the Zem Sheh~
ryar, which they call Zem Badenjan. The fifth
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is the Ov^.! Zem Ahmed hen Alhosein, called
U;^ Zem Karma; and this is the Zem Ar-
deshir.
Account of the Joums of the Curds *,
T he Joums of the Curds are more than can be exactly num
bered ; but it is said that in Pars there are above five hundred
thousand houses or families), which, during winter and
summer, remain on the pasture-lands. Some of these Curds
maintain two hundred persons, such as shepherds, and labourers,
and grooms, and boys or servants, and such like. Their number
cannot be ascertained.
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the Eton MS. (like too many other proper names) it is written without any diacritical
points, thus^Lsr J, '> J — an(: l consequently capable of various readings.
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* If the the word youm had not been too plainly written in this place, and the fol
lowing passage, I would have altered it to Koum, tribe, people, family, &c.—-
Captain F rancklin , in his Tour to Persia {^London edition, 1790, octavo, p. 199),
mentions " some hundreds of wandering Curds and Turkomans," whom his party met
in the vicinity of Persepolis. They were then removing, with their families, flocks,
and herds, to the southward of Shiraz ; and resembled, in their sun-burnt, tawny com
plexions, the Gypsies of Europe.
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