Kerman, an eastern province of Persia, the N. and the NE. of it a desolate salt waste, and with a chief town (30) of the name in the middle of it, once a great emporium of trade; manufactures carpets.
Population (circa 1900) given as 300,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kerguelen's Land * Kerner, Andreas