Qūmis (قومس; Arabized form of the Persian name کومس Kōmis or کومش Kōmiš; Ancient Greek: Κωμισηνή Kōmisēnē; Old Armenian: Կոմշ Komsh), was a province in pre-Islamic Persia, lying between the southern Alborz chain watershed and the northern fringes of the Dasht-e Kavir desert.[1] In Sassanian period, it was separating the provinces of Ray and Gurgan.[2] Qumis remained a small province of medieval Islamic Persia.