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MANStJRABAD—(Mansuria of the “ Nuzhat-uI-Qulub
A large ruined and deserted village in the Damghan district, a couple
of miles north of Daulatabad and 10| miles from Damghan. North-east
of it are the ruins of Girdkuh (q.v.). — (Schindler.)
A small village east of the road between Shiraz and Isfahan, in a valley
between Kumisheh and Mayar .—(Taylor ; Hardy.)
MANZARIEH—
The fifth stage on the road from Tehran to Qum 17| miles from the
latter place. A large caravansarai is now (1887) being built: a couple of miles
south of the place the Kara Chai or Kara Su is crossed by a new bridge.—
(Schindler.)
A river in Mazandaran, falling into the Caspian, between Rud-i-Sar and
Khurramabad.
It is a small stream except in the spring and summer.— (Holmes.)
MAQSUDBAIGl—
A village in Isfahan district, 15 miles south-south-east of Kumisheh,
23 miles from Yazd-i-Khast, on the Shiraz-Isfahan road. It has a small
mud fort, a caravansarai, and a few half-ruined hovels. Supplies in small
quantities are procurable, and water is obtained from a “ kdrizT
A flourishing town of some 15,000 inhabitants in Azarbaijan on the
Safichai, 80 miles from Tabriz by the road via Gugan. This town was the
residence of Hulaku Khan, who reigned in the 13th century. A building
in the town is known as the tomb of Hulaku Khan; but that prince, as
we know from history, was buried in the Shahu peninsula. In another
building, called the Gumbad-i-Kabud (blue dome), is said to be the grave
of one of Hulaku Khan’s wives. On the eastern side of the town °is a
large burial ground with some tombstones dating from the 16th centurv.
On a hill west of the town stood the famous observatory (rasad) which
Hulaku Khan had constructed under the direction of the great astronomer
Nasir-ud-Din Tusi. The hills west of Maragheh consist of horizontal layers
of sand-stone covered by pieces of basalt, and the top of the hill, on which
to a foot in thickness.
The town is pleasantly situated in a long narrow valley running nearlv
north and south, at the extremity of a well-cultivated plain opening to
Lake Urumleh from, which Maragheh is distant some 9 to 10 guiles. "The
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the observatory stood, was made level by taking away the basalt. On the
southern slope of the observatory hill is a cave cut into the sandstone.
There are three chambers each 10 feet high, and a passage 38 paces
long which leads into a little, incompleted-chamber above the three first.
Only the foundations of the observatory are to be seen ; the walls were 4|
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