Reshd, a town of Persia, capital of the province of Ghilan, stands near the south-west shore of the Caspian Sea, 150 miles NW. of Teheran. Silk is grown and manufactured, and rice and tobacco are cultivated. Pop. 25,000.
Reshd,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 658
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