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HAR-HAS
HARPUT—
A village in the Bampur district, 23 miles west of Isfakeh, and 12 miles
east of Maskhutan, on the road between the two.— (Sykes, 1893, from native
information.)
HASANABAD or HUSAINABAD— Lat. 32° 29' 0*; Long. 60° 10' 50" ;
Elev. 4,480'— (St. John.)
A village in Khorasan, 66 miles south-east of Birjand, on the road
from Duruh to Tabas. It is neatly built and surrounded by a wall having
a round bastion at each of its four corners, and a turret over the
gateway. Its inhabitants consist of some 30 families, of whom half are
Shi’ah and half Sunni. The soil, though gravelly, is very productive
yielding excellent crops of wheat and barley, 10 to 20 A:Aamars yearly.
The water-supply is from a qandt and, though clear and fresh to look at
is very brackish to the taste. A spring of sweet water is to be found
at the foot of the hill across the plains to the east, at the site of an
ancient castle called Kalat-i-Qaim-Ab (fort of perpetual water). The
climate in the valley of Hasanabad is described as delightfully pure and
invigorating, though very cold in the winter, when a great deal of snow
falls.— (Goldsmid ; Euan-Smith ; Belbw ; Keyes, 1904 ; Abbas Ali, 1907.)
HASANABAD—
A halting-place in Kirman, about 70| miles from Rigan, on the road to
Bandar Abbas. There was a small Baluch camp here when Grey passed
through in September 1905.— (Grey, 1905.)
HASANABAD—
A village of 20 huts on the Qasimabad-Bampur road in Persian Balu
chistan.— (Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
HASANABAD, see Deh-i-Gaviha.
HASAN LANGl— Elev. 45'.
A village in the Bandar Abbas district, 47 miles from the town of that
name, on the road to Minab. It is very wildly scattered, being divided
into Hasan Langi Bala, or Upper Hasan Langi, and Hasan Langi Pain or
Lower Hasan Langi, and contains a total of 200 houses, the inhabitants
of which are Shi’ahs.
The village is surrounded by about 4 square miles of date groves and
cultivation. The latter consists of henna and of barley, of which about
35,000 lb are sown annually, while the date groves are computed to con
tain about 20,000 trees. The mdlidt consists of half the produce. Water
is brought by a small channel from a spring in the hills to the north, and
is also obtained from the Shamil river.
Many caravans from Kabul, Ka:\dahar, etc., pass through Hasan Langi
on their way to Bandar Abbas during the cold weather.
There is plenty of fuel and camel-grazing, and the village owns 50 cattle
and 200 sheep and goats.— (Napier, 1899 ; Grey, 1905 \ Larimer, 1906.)