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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: f summer. Descriptions of Teheran are so numerous that I may be al-lowed to confine myself merely to the principal features with-out going into details.^ This is not due to alack of interest inthe capital or to a scarcity of material at hand, but it is owingto lack of space for a more extended account of the place. A plan of the city, if we had a sketch-map before us, wouldshow that Teheran is laid out in octagonal form, roughly speak-ing, and the heart of the town lies considerably north of themiddle point of this walled enclosure.^ The principal squarein this section is called Meiddn-i Top Khdnah, ArsenalSquare, a handsome quadrilateral, about 300 yards long and150 broad, with its larger side running east and west and itssurface paved in a rough sort of way with cobble-stones. Thecentral portion of this extensive parallelogram is occupied by a 1 The description given by Curzon, ous accounts and should be consulted.Persia, 1. 300-353, supplants allprevi- ^ cf. Curzon, Persia, 1. 305.

Text Appearing After Image: The Southwest Gate of the Meidan at Teheran


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