serdsir

Updated: July 23, 2025

Its length seems to have been about 450, and its average width about 250 miles. It thus contained an area of rather more than 100,000 square miles. In modern times it is customary to divide the province of Fars into the ghermsir, or, "warm district," and the serdsir, or "cold region" and the physical character of the country must have made such a division thoroughly appropriate at every period.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5: Persia : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

It forms, however, no very large portion of the ancient Persia, being in general a mere strip of land, from ten to fifty miles wide, and thus not constituting more than an eighth part of the territory in question. The remaining seven eighths belong to the serdsir, or "cold region."

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5: Persia : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.