This Town, During The Middle Ages, Was Called Bardshir.
On a coin
of Qara Arslan Beg, King of Kerman, of A.H. 462, Mr. Stanley Lane Poole
reads Yazdashir instead of Bardshir.
Of Al Idrisi's Yazdashir I see no
mention in histories; Bardshir was the capital and the place where most of
the coins were struck. Yazdashir, if such a place existed, can only have
been a place of small importance. It is, perhaps, a clerical error for
Bardshir; without diacritical points, both words are written alike. Later,
the name of the city became Kerman, the name Bardshir reverting to the
district lying south-west of it, with its principal place Mashiz. In a
similar manner Mashiz was often, and is so now, called Bardshir. Another
old town sometimes confused with Bardshir was Sirjan or Shirjan, once more
important than Bardshir; it is spoken of as the capital of Kerman, of
Bardshir, and of Sardsir. Its name now exists only as that of a district,
with principal place S'aidabad. The history of Kerman, 'Agd-ul-'Ola,
plainly says Bardshir is the capital of Kerman, and from the description
of Bardshir there is no doubt of its having been the present town Kerman.
It is strange that Marco Polo does not give the name of the city. In
Assemanni's Bibliotheca Orientalis Kuwashir and Bardashir are mentioned
as separate cities, the latter being probably the old Mashiz, which as
early as A.H. 582 (A.D. 1186) is spoken of in the History of Kerman as
an important town.
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