'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎297v] (599/652)

TABARKAND, or TAVARKAND—
A stream in the Jashk district (q.v.).
TABAS (Village)—
A village and fort in the Tabas sub-division of the Kain district of Khora-
san, situated on the Meshed-Sistan route via Duruh and about 50 miles
east of Birjand. It is now known as the Sunnikhaneh sub-division. The
Hakim of Sunmkhaneh has a residence here but generally lives at Furg.
The old fort, which must have been a strong place in its day, is built on
an artificial mound and the walls stand high on the top of a lofty rampart,
all round which are the remains of a double row of Shirdzis with a deep ditch
in front, the escarp and counterscarp of which are still in good condition. The
fort has a garrison of 15 sar&azes, under a Sultan, who are relieved annually.
The village, which consists of about 400 houses, is built mostly outside
and at some distance from the fort and has 40 wind-mills and 9 or 10 shops.
The water-supply is from 5 kdrizes, and the normal annual production of
grain is about 40,000 Indian maunds. The village is generally known aa
Tabas-i-Sunnikhaneh to distinguish it from the other Tabas, which is
known as Tabas-u-Tun.—(C. E. Yate, 1891—Fazl Rahman Khan, 1905).
Kinnier.)
TABASlN—
A small village of 12 houses enclosed by a wall, situated in the Bandan
valley, 3| miles nor’-nor’-west of the village of Bandan. The annual
production of wheat and barley (f wheat, | barley) is about 300 kharwars.
The village is exempt from taxation.
Animals 10 head of cattle, 100 sheep and goats. , There is good
grazing-ground consisting of Tak, gaz, ghich and iskambul which are used
also for firewood. Gandehbu, a poisonous shrub which kills camels and
sheep, must be avoided.
Population—about 9 families or roughly 35 souls; all cultivators.
The village is under a Zabit.— (Wanliss, 1903—’Abbas All.)
TACHAB—
A plain in Persian Baluchistan to the east of Kuh-i-Bazman. [Brazier-
Creagh, 1894.)
TAFTAB SPRING (Kirman)—
A sulphur spring in the Rang Kuh range, west of the Bazman Kuh. It
is passed on the Bampur-Rigan road between Gazzaq and Dar-i-Kishkm,
at 8 miles from the former.— [Jennings.)
TAFTlN KOH—See Chehil Tan, Kuh-i-.
TAGAN—
A well in the Bampur district, about 53 miles north-east of Fanuch,
on the Bazman road. The water is bad, and there are no supplies.
{Brazier-Creaqh, 1893, from native information.)