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parasang
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synonyms: ~league ???
tags: [unit]
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Definition:[Iran] the distance someone can travel in one hour, about 6 kilometers
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We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.
Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia
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Thence they advanced five parasangs.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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The isle of Serendib is situated just under the equinoctial line; so that the days and nights there are always of twelve hours each, and the island is eighty parasangs in length, and as many in breadth.
various. The Arabian Nights: The Story of Sinbad the Voyager.
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