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ISRIL— -~ : r /
A small village in the Armian sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam, 13 miles
south-west of Maiamai.— {Schindler.)
ISTARtAD or ISTARBtD—
A village of 75 houses in the Fariumad-Firuzabad sub-district of Shah
rud-Bustam, 6 miles from Faiiumad. It is well watered by a little stream
which runs into the Kaleh-i-Mura iust above the Pul-i-Abrisham.— {Schind
ler.) ' "
ISTIKSt? (No. 1) (River)— r
A small stream flowing from the hills near Kalat-i-Nadiri to the village
Istiksu, from which it derives its name.— {Mania Bakhsh.)
ISTIKSU (No. 2) (Village)—
In Persian, Garmab. A village containing about 20 families of Jalair
Turks in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of Khorasan, situated at 6 miles from
Darband-i-Arghavan Shah and 10 miles from Bardeh (or Vardeh). The
inhabitants possess 50 cattle and 800 sheep and goats. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley amounts to 100 kharwdrs.—{C. E. Yate ;
Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Smyth, 1906.)
ISTIR or PlR-I-ISTIR—
' A village of 150 houses in Khorasan, 10 miles west of Sabzawar. It is
also called Pirri-Istir.— {Schindler.)
ISTUI (No. 1)—
A hamlet on the Eastern Khorasan fronner, 36 miles east-north-east of
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, inhabited by 4 or 5 Baluchi families.— {Sykes, Nov
ember 1905.)
ISTUI (No. 2) (Stream)—
A stream in North-Eastern Khorikan, which has its source near the
Mishi hills, an offshoot of the Galabak mountains, and running due east,
flows into the Hari Rud near the village of Khatai. It has a length of
about 19 miles, and flows through a defile formed by two spurs of the
Galabak mountains, and is encumbered by fragments of rock. The breadth
of the valley is inconsiderable, and above Kaleh Istui, for a distance of
3 miles, it is so narrow that communication along it is impossible. At
Kaleh Istui it receives two tributaries, one from the north-west and the
other from the south ; here the valley broadens out and is cultivated.
Farther down the valley again contracts and is difficult to follow, owing
to the mass of boulders with which it is strewn.
Clumps of bushes and trees of various kinds grow in the valley, as well
as on the sides of the hills enclosing it.
Kaleh Istui is inhabited by only 4 or 5 families, and the cultivation in
the neighbourhood belongs to the inhabitants of the village of Khatai.
The road from Zulfikar to Pish Robat follows the valley of the Istui.—
(Oranoffsky, 1894.)