More posts from Prodigy -- this time about King Carman on the Persion
Another favorite former relative. Contemporary research has no evidence.
Surnames did not come into use until after 1000 A.D.
HISTORY OF THE CARMAN FAMILY continued: in which he speaks of King
Carman, ruler of an extensive province in Asia, along the northern side of
the Persian Gulf. Strabo (vol. XV. pp. 726, etc.), Pliny (vol. VI, pp.
23, etc.) and Ptolomey (vol. VI), and others of the ancient historians
(Nearchus' "Voyages", also "History of the Wars of Antioch and
Ptolomey")
have intersting details of this king and his domains, then known as
Carmanis, which appears to have comprehended the coast line of the modern
Laristan, Karman or Kerman, and Moghostan. The inhabitants of Carmania
were called Carmanil, or Karmanil, and appear to have been a warlike, high
spirited and independent race, and, according to Strabo, well advanced in
the arts and sciences (see also Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Geography").