Barde/askan, the City of Gardens

The article is an attempt to interpret the toponym Bardeskan/Bardaskan, which is the name of a city and a šahrestān (“county”) located in the south of the Khorasan-e Razavi province in Iran, on the northern edge of the Great Salt desert (Kavīr-e namak). Parallelly, the author discusses also the orig...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Iran & the Caucasus Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 365 - 368
Main Author:	Asatrian, Garnik
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands BRILL 01-11-2019 Brill
Subjects:	LINGUISTICS
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	The article is an attempt to interpret the toponym Bardeskan/Bardaskan, which is the name of a city and a šahrestān (“county”) located in the south of the Khorasan-e Razavi province in Iran, on the northern edge of the Great Salt desert (Kavīr-e namak). Parallelly, the author discusses also the origin of a number of other place-names from the same area.
ISSN:	1609-8498 1573-384X
DOI:	10.1163/1573384X-20190406