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It comes from a Persian word - kárwán - meaning a group of desert travelers. Adopted by the French as caravane; it was caravana/carovana in Italian. Absorbed into English in the 17th Century as a 'vehicle' or a 'covered cart'
Persia, during The Crusades.
it is an old French word that came from Persia
13th Century Old French, from the Crusaders hearing the Persian karwan.

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