Jīroft

Jiroft lies in southeastern Iran, in a region where cultivated valleys connected the uplands of Kerman with routes towards the southern coast. Water supported agriculture in suitable ground, while nearby dry country encouraged pastoral movement and exchange. The surrounding district could supply crops and provisions to travellers, linking local production with commerce across a much larger area.

Medieval Jiroft was a commercial centre linked to both inland Iran and the sea. According to later chronicles, merchants from distant lands kept warehouses at nearby Qamadin in the twelfth century. The old city declined after incursions and disappeared from historical accounts after the thirteenth century; its remains lie north of the modern town, which later regained the name Jiroft.