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Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi
Country Iran
ProvinceHormozgan
CountyMinab/Jiroft County
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi also known as the Nahr-az-Zankan River was a river in Medieval Southern Persia. Mentioned by Marco Polo,[1][2] Istakhri [3] and by Yaqut al-Hamawi[4] Its name means River of Robbers.

Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi was also the name of a village on the river with about 500 inhabitants, known in colonial times.[5] It is in the Jiroft area, possibly a tributary of the Minab River.

References

  1. ^ Travels of Marco Polo Vol2.
  2. ^ Travels of Marco Polo the venetian.
  3. ^ Guy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur (Cosimo, Inc., 1 Jan 2010)page 318.
  4. ^ Yakut, iv, 939.
  5. ^ Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870 (Eastern persia) vo1


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