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Marasali rugs are
attributed to a village south of Shemaka in the
Shirvan region of the Caucasus.
Kaffel,
Caucasian Prayer Rugs page 34. I now have
some doubts about that and am wondering if Marasali is actually
Masally. Masally is a regions of Azerbaijan
bordering Lenkoran, and Neftechalinski. It is
primarily Azeri ethnically and was a major rug
producing area. It is south of Shemaka, north of
Talish, east of Mogan against the Caspian.
Massalin is the dialect of Talish Ethnologue:
Azerbaijan - Talish spoken in Masally and as
such I suggest that there is a possibly that
Marasali rugs are Masally rugs and should be seen
as a subgroup of Talish. I will post more as I
explore the idea. One stumbling block is that as
my friend Ralph
Kaffel reminds me that structurally Marasali
rugs are firmly in the Shirvan group. (Telephone
call with Ralph
Kaffel 8/29/00)
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