town and as a province or kingdom
[’There is some confusion with regard to the names of Kermn both as a
town and as a province or kingdom. We have the names Kermn, Kuwshr,
Bardshr. I should say the original name of the whole country was Kermn,
the ancient Karamania. A province of this was called Kreh-i-Ardeshr,
which, being contracted, became Kuwshr, and is spoken of as the province
in which Ardeshr Bbekn, the first Sassanian monarch, resided. A part of
Kreh-i-Ardeshr was called Bardshr, or Bard-i-Ardeshr, now occasionally
Bardsr, and the present city of Kermn was situated at its north-eastern
corner. This town, during the Middle Ages, was called Bardshr. On a coin
of Qara Arsln Beg, King of Kermn, of A.H. 462, Mr. Stanley Lane Poole
reads Yazdashr instead of Bardshr. Of Al Idrs?s Yazdashr I see no
mention in histories; Bardshr was the capital and the place where most of
the coins were struck. Yazdashr, if such a place existed, can only have
been a place of small importance. It is, perhaps, a clerical error for
Bardshr; without diacritical points, both words are written alike. Later,
the name of the city became Kermn, the name Bardshr reverting to the
district lying south-west of it, with its principal place Mashz. In a
similar manner Mashz was often, and is so now, called Bardshr. Another
old town sometimes confused with Bardshr was Srjn or Shrjn, once more
important than Bardshr; it is spoken of as the capital of Kermn, of
Bardshr, and of Sardsr. Its name now exists only as that of a district,
with principal place S”adbd. The history of Kermn, “Agd-ul-”Ol?
plainly says Bardshr is the capital of Kermn, and from the description
of Bardshr there is no doubt of its having been the present town Kermn.
It is strange that Marco Polo does not give the name of the city. In
Assemanni”s _Bibliotheca Orientalis_ Kuwshr and Bardashr are mentioned
as separate cities, the latter being probably the old Mashz, which as
early as A.H. 582 (A.D. 1186) is spoken of in the _History of Kermn_ as
an important town. The Nestorian bishop of the province Kermn, who stood
under the Metropolitan of Fars, resided at Hormz.’ (_Houtum-Schindler_,
l.c. pp. 491-492.)
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