'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎90r] (184/706)

FIN—
and ^ b ° Ut V" 1 ? WG f ° f KgsUn > with a Plentiful water-supply
and fine garden and palace dating from the Safaviehs. The village has
large gardens famous for their pomegranates.—) 8
FIRAKHI—
See Farukhi.
FlRUZABAD (No. 1)—
A ruined village of Mazandaran, situated at the foot of the Kuh-i-Palar
he surrounding country is covered with dense forests. It gives its name
to a small tributary of the Chalus livei.—(Lovett.) 8
FIRUZABAD (No. 2)—
mn ? gMn district 6 I mi les from Qusheh, and 4 mfies
to the right of the road to Damghan.— {Schindler.)
FlRtjZABAD (No. 3)—
. A sm ^ 11 vl U a g e one mile south-east of Damghan.—(^cAm^er.)
45 ' iT '• L ° ng - 52 ° 48 ' Elev. 6,700'. (or
A town 90 miles east of Tehran, on the road to Samnan. It is situated
on the south side of the plateau of the same name, which is green and fer
tile, at a point where the Sarvasheh, a small stream, with marshy banks
enters a rocky gorge shut in by two opposing cliffs of limestone, 400' high
The eastern cliff is surmounted by the ruins of an ancient fortress said^o
have been built by Alexander the Great. The village has 500 houses
many of which were, however, emptied by the famine. § Some of these are’
ablTh^ u ° W - the mo ™ tam ’ and ^ers cover its steep side to a consider
able height, «sing one above the other, and some of the inhabitants live in
tfilv C fH ln the hl be ™ nd the villa S e ’ which ar e also used as stables for
and thfr 6 m Wmt , er - There 18 a Persian Government telegraph office here
- h ^- me i, 80eS t0 Samnan ; th ere is, however, no traffic on it: also a
chaporkhrneh, or posting establishment, but the house is in ruins and onlv
three sorry nags are kept for occasional posting. There is a bazar but
scarcely any provisions are procurable in it. Through FIruzkuh lies the
mam post-road to Mazandaran. It is now much
th %h-K ber ’ and charcoal to the capital, but must shortly be superseded bv
iotwO h 8 n6W 1084 fUrther WeSt d ° Wn tHe Valle7 ° f thG Har haz^—( NapieJ;
FIRUZKUH—District.
The district of Firuzkuh, of which the village of the same name is the
ch.ef place consists of 5 huluks : 1 and 2, Dehbuluk, and villages : Andarieh
Vashr an T-h ha h ka v eh ’ i L i aZir ’ AhnaZ ’ Assur ’ Vo ^ un ’ Na j' a f da r, Zarmun’
Vashta, Tihneh, \arsukharun and Sehbaleh ; 3, Tawabeh, villages • Tars’
Shahrwa, Galzgan, Yarn, Nimehvar; 4, Halehmd, villiges: Anzeh ha
Atcshun, Mazzamn, Dehgardun, Hassanabad. 5, Pushtkuh villages’
Parchdeh, Gu, Kadu, Ij, Javin, Imamzadeh, Valivaf’ (Rabino
1910, from native information.) (naomo,