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The Anguran lead mine is situated some miles north-west of Ganjabad
in the Arghun Kuh at an elevation of 8,210'. Work goes on there for
four months in the year only, as the mine is under snow the remainder
of the year. When Schindler visited the mine is 1880, 110 men were
employed in it and the yearly output did not exceed 14 tons of lead. The
Government tax on the mine was £40 per annum. There are 7 shafts,
one over 300 feet in depth. Some distance above the lead mine is an old
and very extensive fluor-spar mine, which, however, is not worked now.
The principal place of the district is the little town of Anguran on the
Anguran river, which rises in the Arghun Kuh and flows into the Kizil
Uzun ; but the Governor of the district resides at Ganjabad. The produce
of grain in the district is very limited, and does not suffice for the wants
of the population. The Anguranis are Turks, and consider themselves to be
part of the great tribe of Afshars. The Government was formerly heredit
ary in the family of a particular chief, subject, however, to the approval
of the provincial governor appointed from Tehran.
In common with the surrounding districts, it suffered greatly in the
harassing conflict which was kept up all along this frontier between the
Kurds and Kizilbash, previous to the rise of the Safavian dynasty.
Towards the close of the sixteenth century, when the Turks had overrun
Azerbaijan, Khamseh and the dependent districts as far as Hamadan
were confided to the care of a chief named Daulat Yar Khan, of the
Kurdish tribe of Siah Mansur; and, as the safety of ’Iraq depended upon
the defence of this frontier government, the power of the Chief was
strengthened with all the disposable means of the Empire. Daulat Yar
Khan elated with this power and relying on the natural strength of his
country, now took occasion to assert his independence; he built a very
strong fort in these mountains of Anguran and defeated the first army
that was sent against him; it was not until Shah ’Abbas the Great
undertook in person the siege of his stronghold that this dangerous rebel
lion was finally crushed. The remains of Daulat Yar’s castle are still
shown upon a high peak north of Yenijah (? Yangizeh)(tfawfeon,
Schindler.)
ANJIRAK—Elev. 4,690'.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , with a spring of good water, about 18 miles from Yazd
on the road to Biabanak. The sarai is 80 yards square and could hold
400 mm.—{MacGregor; Gill.)
ANUJ—
A r uined village in Burbarud, 4 miles from Mughanaq, which is 79| miles
from Burujird on the road thence to MoMm—{Schindler.)
anushirwan—•
A small village of 30 houses, population 150, on the northern road from
Isfahan to Gulpaigan. Has one handt ; 26,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly.
— [Preece.)
AQAJEH—• '
A small village in Azarbaijan about a mile west of Malik Kandi and 18
miles south-south-west of Maragheh.—(Scfowcfe)