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What is a parasang?

What is a parasang? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres. [from 16th c.]
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But Rennell thinks the parasang not more than 2.78 English miles.
The Persian parasang some say contains 60, others 30 or 40, stadia.
I could not always tell what parasang meant when he said things.
They had ordered a fine coffin for parasang, and when I came he was lying in it.
One parasang to Gran David, formerly the large city of Gibeon.
Nineveh is on the Tigris, distant one parasang from the town of Arbil.

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