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CHASHTGAH—
A caravansarai on the Qum-Tehran road, 20 miles north of Qum. To
the north-east are large plains covered with saltpetre which, both by
day and night, look like lakes from a distance.
It is probably the place now known as Baqirabad, 2 or 3 miles north of
Manzarleh, on the new road between Qum and Tehran. The plain north
east of it is now covered by the new salt lake (since 1883). Or it may
have been the old caravansarai of Sadrabad, 20 miles north-east of Qum,
on the old road.— {Schindler.)
CHASHT KHURAN—Elev. 5,100'.
A ruined village in a barren valley 15| miles from Samnan on the road
to Shahrud and miles from Ahuan. Legend says that Imam Riza
had breakfast {chdsht) here, hence the name. In summer there is a tea house
here and a couple of families cultivate some small wheat fields. Half a mile
west of the village, where the valley widens near a stone reservoir, a road
leads southwards down a ravine to a copper mine, situated in the hills about
a couple of miles from Chasht Khuran. Work goes on in only
one shaft 24 feet deep ; the ore is very poor, being worth only £7 a ton.
In 1881, 9 tons of ore were extracted yielding between 1| and 2 tons
of metal. The ore is smelted at the little hamlet Sukah, about a mile
from the reservoir. One furnace holding 7 cwt. of ore is at work. The
hamlet belongs to Mashadi Ahmad, chd'pdrchi of Samnan, and has two
houses.— {Schindler .)
CHAWAN—
A village in Azarbaijan about 58 miles south of Tabriz, on the road to
Sinneh via Maragheh. It is situated on the Kalab Chai between a range
of low hills and lake Urumleh, 2 miles distant from the latter. There is
a ferry of three boats hence to the town of Urumleh— {Morier.)
CHEHAR BAGH—
The northern suburb of Kashan near the Daulat gate ; it was founded
by the Safaviehs.—It formerly had a fine avenue of plane trees 800
yards long, but now hardly a tree remains. The telegraph office is in
this suburb.— {Schindler.)
CHEHAR BASHAH—
A small village in the Yazd district, about 20 miles north-west of Agha,
situated at the foot of the hills some 7 miles south of the road.— {Abbott.)
CHEHAR CHASHMEH—(Le., “ the four wells- ”)— Elev. 8,235'.
The last village in the Farldan district.—It is inhabited by Armenians
and the descendants of a Turkish tribe.
It is on the road between Isfahan and Burujird, about 127 miles north
west of the former place, and is half ruined.— {Schindler.)
CHEHAR DANGEH, pronounced Chehar Dungeh ; Elev. 3,703'.
A village of 60 houses 8 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan
via Saveh. It is a fief of the ’Ala-ud-Dauleh.— {Schindler.)