Paristan
For the film, see Paristan (film).
Paristan or Pari-estan (Persian: پریستان pariyestân, "fairyland"; پری pari [fairy] + the suffix -stan) is a name of a fairyland in the folklore of Middle East, South Asia and Central Asia. In many children's stories Koh-e-Qaf is also used for fairyland. Koh-e-Qaf (Persian: کوہ قاف) refers to the Caucasus mountains.
Most of the fairies are depicted as young females with very fair color, golden hair and light colored eyes. Most of the people claims about khokaf that It is placed near the Baghdad(Iraq). It has come to know in story of " thief of Baghdad" that fairies of khokaf lives in place near to Baghdad.
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