Gulashkird also known as Faryjab or Paryjab or ValashgirdLewis Vance Cummings, Alexander the Great (Grove Press, 2004) page 402. was an important town in Kerman province of Iran during the Middle Ages as a station on the trade routes from the Persian Gulf and Persia to India and also into Central Asia.E. H. Warmington, The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India (Cambridge University Press Archive, 2014) page 24.
Today the town lies at modern Faryjab, a small village north east of Bandar Abbas, south of Jiroft and 50 km north of Mantijan, near the town of Manujan and the Rudkhanah i Duzdi River.
Historically the town was a strongly fortified town with a castle known as Kftshah and was serviced by quanats that allowed the area to grow Indigo,Lands of the Eastern Caliphate . oranges, date palmsGuy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur (Cosimo, Inc., 2010)page 318. and Grain,E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran: Seleucid Parthian (Cambridge University Press, 1983) page 773. It was mentioned by Arab geographers Mukaddasi and Yaqut al-HamawiYakut (iv, 939) and Marco Polo.Travels of Marco Polo Vol2.The Travels of Marco Polo vol 1, chapter16.
The village has been suggestedG. Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Cambridge University Press 2011. page 317 as a possible location for the lost city of Alexandria Carmania, founded by Alexander the Great months before he died in Babylon.Lewis Vance Cummings, Alexander the Great (Grove Press, 2004)page 402 p402 Indeed, Greek pottery has been found in the area.Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, A History of Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Taylor & Francis, 1949
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