'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎71v] (147/706)

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DABASl—
A tribe of professional beggars in Persia. Their headquarters are at
Isfahan, from whence they send out their members all over the country.
All are professed beggars and impostors, practising to great perfection
the arts and deceptions calculated to excite pity. They assume the
appearance of all sorts of ailments and bodily imperfections, and some
go so far as to maim themselves, in order to carry on trade to better
advantage.— {Fraser.)
D ABU AN—
A small village/6 miles south of Daulatabad Malayar, a little to the
right of the road thence to Burujird.
DADIRAN—
A village in Azarbaijan, 1 mile to the south-east of Namin, on the road
to Astara on the borders of Russian Talish.— {MacGregor's Routes in Asia.)
DADUAN—
A ruined village in the PIshkhur district, 137 miles from Tehran on
the road to Hamadan. It is the Deh Divan of the Arab geographers.—
{Schindler.)
DAGHAN, DAGANAK or TAIKAN— Elev. 3,060'.
A small village in the Qum district, Irak-i-’Ajami, about 15 miles south
west of Qum, on the road to Gulpaigan. It lies on the Ab-i-Khunsar, to
; the south of a low range of hills. The land is irrigated by canals from
the river, and good crops of barley and wheat are produced. Some fine
mulberry trees and many fruit-trees. Water brackish, curdles soap.
About 75 donkeys and 300 to 400 sheep, besides, a few cows seen about
village.— {Bell, 1884.)
A village in a plain, in the Kinar-i-Rudkhaneh district of Qum about
12 miles south-west of the town of that name. It has large orchards of
figs and pomegranates, but lies below the level of walnut trees. It is in
habited by 70 families of the Khalaj tribe. They talk a corrupted Turki
and rough Persian.— {Schindler.)
DAHAN-I-KHAR (The Ass’s Pass)—
A pass in Iraq-i-’Ajami, about 8 miles between Qishlaq and Aiwan-i-
Kif, on the Samnan-Tehran road. The road passes between red sand
hills, mixed with salt, fragments of marble and limestone, and is plain
and easy ; but infested with petty thieves, who waylay a lonely traveller.
During the reign of Path ’AH Shah it was a notorious haunt, by all
accounts, of daring robbers, who did not hesitate to attack caravans of 500
persons.— {Rozario.)
DAHKHAN—
A village in Iraq-i-’Ajami, about 38 miles from Firuzkuh, on the road
to Tehran.— {Eastwick.)