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MAHAB—MAHAR
MAHABAD—
60 miles south-east of Kashan on the road to Ardistan, a flourish
ing town full of good buildings and containing 600—700 houses.—
(Vaughan, 1892.)
MAHALL-I-SARBAND—
A very fertile plain crossed on the road from Burujird to Sultanabad;
it is nearly circular, being about 7 miles in diameter; there are about ten
villages on it; the largest is called Julkeh.
MAHALLAT—
A province bounded on the north by ’Iraq and Qum, on the east by Kashan,
on the south by Jusqan and Gulpaigan, and on the west by Kamareh and
Iraq. It is traversed in a north to south direction by the Anarbar river,
and has an abundant water-supply from this river with its numerous small
affluents. Its mean elevation is 5,000'; and its climate is salubrious, though
hot in the plain in summer.
This province is constantly changing hands, one moment being under
the Governor-General of Isfahan, and at another forming with other dis
tricts a separate Government: it apparently is now united with ’Iraq, Kazzaz,
Farahan and Saveh under one Governor.
The population is under 20,000.— {Schindler.)
MAHALLAT (Town.)—Kiev. 5,850'.
The principal place of the province of the same name and the seat of
the Governor appointed by the Governor-General of Isfahan, when under
that officer. It is divided into two parts, upper and lower ; in official
registers the upper town is called Ttivkan and the lower Zanjirvan.
The town is beautifully situated on the southern slopes of a range of lime
stone hills, and overlooks a fertile valley watered by the Anarbar or Qum
river. It has magnificent gardens, orchards, and meadows, and the houses
are clean and well built. It is 63 miles from Qum on the road to Gulpai
gan.
The upper town has a population of 8,000, the lower 800.
The upper town has 5 mosques and a bazaar with 200 shops ; two hamlets
Hajiabad and ’Aliabad also belong to it. In the lower town stands the ark,
a rectangular fort measuring 250 yards by 150 yards with mud walls 30 feet
high, and 7 feet thick, and flanked by 14 towers.
The principal water-supply of the town is from a spring which flows
out of the rock about a mile north of the upper town, at an elevation of
6,100 . This spring supplies 50,000 cubic feet of water per hour in April
and May, and 40,000 during the rest of the year.
In some of the orchards are found the famous sihri pears and the grapes
and apples of the district are excellent.
Game is said to be plentiful.— (Schindler.)
MAHARABAD—
A village surrounded by cultivation, principally wheat, 5 miles from
Daulatabad on the road to Hamllabad.—(Zwzar Gul, 1909.)