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A caravan (from Persian کاروان kârvân) is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition. [1] Caravans were used mainly in desert areas and throughout the Silk Road, where traveling in groups helped in defense against bandits as well as in improving economies of scale in trade. [1]
Caravanserai (Persian: کاروانسرای, romanized: kārvānsarāy), is the Persian compound word variant combining kārvān "caravan" with -sarāy "palace", "building with enclosed courts". [6] Here "caravan" means a group of traders, pilgrims, and travelers, engaged in long-distance travel.
Woven silk textile from Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan province, China, dated to the Western Han Era, 2nd century BCE. The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk, first developed in China, [9] [10] and a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network.
Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Egyptian geographer of Alexandria, wrote about a "Stone Tower" (λίθινος πύργος, Lithinos Pyrgos in Greek, Turris Lapidea in Latin) which marked the midpoint on the ancient Silk Road – the network of overland trade routes taken by caravans between Europe and Asia. It was the most important landmark on ...
Yengi Emam Caravansari is located in Alborz Province in the hills of Yengi Emam.The caravansary is considered an important site for Persian architecture that evolved in the Silk Road.
The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over. With fewer tourists coming and difficulties rising in making international ...
The first person to explore this in detail was Aurel Stein, coming from the west through Kashgar and entering the Taklamakan Desert in September 1900, before heading south to Khotan on his first expedition to Serindia. [1] Stein was to come back several times, extending his research area to increase the known sites along the Silk Road in this ...
The caravans of 2018 and early 2019 were not the first of their kind – but they were, all told, the largest and most visible, gaining attention and size partly because U.S. President Donald ...