Caramania
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Sources from old books
1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.
Caramania is the third Province, the chiefe Cities are Gadil, Cobin and Caraman, famous for the excellent fabricks here made of Cloth of gold, and for the best Semiters in the world; and here it was that Alexander being returned out of India, kept his Bacchanalian feasts.
1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.
Macran, or Makeran, Caramania, a Province of Persia towards the Indian Ocean, and the Confines of Indostan; which is a part of the ancient Caramania. It has on the North Sigestan, on the South the Indian Ocean, on the West Caramania, (properly so called,) and on the East Sinda. It is under a Prince of its own, who is a Tributary to the King of Persia. Its principal City is Macran, and its best Port is called Guadel. ... Caramania or Carnania, a large Country in Persia, bounded on the East with Gedrosia or Circan, on the West with Farsi, Sublestan to the North, and the Gulph of Ormus with the Indian Ocean to the South: Containing the Provinces of Guadel, Dulcinda, and Ormus. It is now called Kherman, after its capital City, which stands upon the River Bessiry. The Northern part is rather barren; but the middle is blessed with fruitful Vales.