Parthia
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1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.
The next Country subject to the Crowne of Persia is Parthia, bounded on the East with Aria, on the West with Media, on the South with Caramania, and on the North with Hircania, and is now in the Persian tongue called Erache. The chiefe Cities that are found in this tract are Guerde, Irsdie, and last Hispahan, formerly Hecatompyle, the residence of the present Sophie, and accounted of that bignesse, that the Persians hyperbolly call it, Halfe the world; under which I will comprehend the generall trade of Persia, so farre forth as I have found it observed.