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The
parasang (Persian فرسنگ farsang) is an ancient
Persian unit of itinerant distance, sometimes referred to as a
schoenus, was extremely variable but usually corresponded to approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers), or the distance that could be traversed on foot in an hour.
Some, but certainly not all, measurements of distances in antiquity (and even today) are quite variable. In particular, distances used by caravan leaders tend to vary considerably and are often more a rough measurement of the time it took to cover a certain portion of a route. Thus, they tended to be longer when travalling over flat, even ground, and shorter in mountainous country.
Also, of course, measurements of distance tend to vary from time to time and place to place, and according to the uses they're put to. For example, compare the
Roman mile, the Imperial or English
mile, and the
Nautical mile.
Wilfred H. Schoff notes:
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