Another variant of the ancient Persian unit of distance measurement, equivalent to approximately 4-5 kilometers.
Alternative romanization and transliteration of Persian 'farsakh,' showing the variation in how the same term was written across different European languages and time periods.
Three spellings of the same Persian word exist in English texts because early travelers, traders, and scholars all heard the word differently and tried to write it in their own languages—it's linguistic archaeology.
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