Farsang
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Farsang may refer to:
- parasangParasangThe parasang is a historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance comparable to the European league.In antiquity, the term was used throughout much of the Middle East, and the Old Iranian language from which it derives can no longer be determined...
, an Iranian or Persian (which also includes Iraq) unit of measurement for how far a man can walk in one day. - An Islamic folk character
- Farsang, a Hungarian carnival that precedes the annual Busójárás celebration