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Mazangan has now 50 families. Water good and abundant ; distance
from Mazdaran about 20 miles apparently, and 25 on to Chehcheh. Road
said to be dry all the way even after rain.— (MacLean, 1888.)
MAZDARAN—
Nee “ Muzdaran.”
MAZlNAN (No. 1) (District)—
One of the buluks of the Sabzawar district in Khorasan, with a popula
tion of over 5,000 souls. The district suffered much by the great flood
of 1870, which destroyed some villages and many gardens. It grows
cotton and raises some silk. It pays very little to the Government, but 200
of its men are supposed to be always in readiness to accompany and pro
tect caravans going to and coming from Shahrud. The district has eleven
villages.—(1) Mazinan, (2) Behmanabad, (3) Saviz, (4) Davarzan, (5)
Kaha,_(6) Nehardan, (7) Abrud, (8) Biza, (9) Mur, (10) Kamiabin (also
Chanhabun), (11) Kalaleh. To the latter belong several small hamlets
to the east of the village of Mazinan. The mountain due north of the latter
is the Kuh-i-Biza. The principal water-supply of the district is the stream
which comes from the Garra Kuh, the western part of the Juvain or Jagha-
tai mountain. The ground is very fertile, and the corn-fields of Mazi
nan are of vast extent. On the south and west the district is bounded by a
kavlr or salt marsh, on the north by the Saviz and Jaghatai mountains
on the east the plain extends to Sabzawar.—(NcAMer.)
MAZlNAN (No. 2) (Village) L at. 36° 19' 30"; Long. 56° 44' 0"* Elev
2,800'.
An important village in Khorasan, 54| miles from Sabzawar and 1174
miles from Shahrud. It is the principal place of the Mazinan district {q.v.,
and has 300 houses. The present village was built within the last 17 years
after the o.d \illage, 2 mile to the south, was almost totally destroyed by
a great flood. The new village is enclosed by a wall with 20 towers, and
occupies the site of Yangi Kakh, built during Fath ’Ali Shah’s reign by
the rebel Allah Yar Khan Qilichi of Juvain. Mazinan has a post house, a
telegraph station, a good public bath, a mosque and a college. Between
old and new Mazinan (the former now completely deserted) is a fine cara
vanserai built by Shah ’Abbas II, in A. H. 1074, and close by there
are the ruins of a very ancient building called the Caravanserai Mamurii
v from the Abbasi KLaliieh of that name), the bricks of which measured
30 x 27 x 8 centimetres. Out of the 200 tufangchi which the Mazinan dis
trict has to supply, this village has to provide 50. In old Mazinan are
the mms of two mosques ; the place is said to have had at one time over
5,000 inhabitants.— {Schindler .)
MAZRA’EH—
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Sabzawar to Khur. Water is
procurable.— {MacGregor.)
MAZRU—
A village in the Neharjan buluk of the Kain district of Khorasan.—
{Bellew.)