Most of the Persians, with their own language, learn also the Turkish especially in those provinces which have been long under the jurisdiction of the Grand Seignor, as Shirvan, Adirbeitzan, Iraq, Baghdad, and Eruan, where children are taught the Turkish language and by this means it is so common at court that a man seldom hears anyone speak the Persian; as in the Grand Seignior's country, they ordinarily speak the Sclavonian, and in the Mogul's the Persian. But in the province of Fars (which is the ancient Persia) and at Shiraz, they speak only the Persian language. The travels of Olearius in seventeenth-century Persia
