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goes roaring away towards the low country. The houses of this village
differed entirely, both in internal and external appearance, from those of
the neighbouring villages. They were, many of them, three storeys high,
the two upper ones having each two tiers of windows—the one tall, the
other low — over each other, which produces rather a lively appearance
resembling European buildings. They are built on the Lesghi model.
The people of Masuleh are all muleteers or petty merchants,
who trade with the neighbouring districts and between the low and
high country ; and we had abundant proof of the attention they pay to
the main chance. They cultivate no grain, nor indeed anything else
except a few vegetables ; but they are nchm flocks and herds.—(MowtetfA.)
A village 11 miles south of Damghan to the right of the road to hrat.
(Schindler.)
MAUNCHI Kirm - nsh - }l situate d 16 miles north-west of Kirmanshah
city near°the right bank of the Kara Su. It contains about 5 houses, has
no trees, a few crops, and some cultivation ; water from wells ; supplies:
100 sheep and goats ; grazing ; no firewood. Roads from here to Juanrud
and Kirmanshah distant 35 and 22 miles respectively.—(Faw^Aan.)
" A village with two caravansarais and one hundred houses in Azarbaijan
on the border of the Aji-Chai.—(Morier, Gerard.)
MAZANDARAN-Lat. 35° 45' to 37° 10'; Long. 50° 15' to 54°.
History In 1668 there was a Cossack descent on Mazandaran , they took
and sacked Earahabad, but were immediately afterwards attacked and
driven out by the Persians. In 1723 a treaty was signed between Peter
the Great and Shah Tahmasp, one of the principal clauses of which was
that Persia ceded Gilan, Mazandaran and Astrabad to_ Russia The
Russians however, never seem to have sat fast m Mazandaran, though they
were in de facto possession of Gilan. However, in 1734 the Russians finally
evacuated Gilan, whether due to the pernicious climate, to internal trouble
or to fear of Nadir Shah, the fact remains that in 1746 all that was left
of the former Russian occupation was a factory An East India Company trading post. at Enzall and an agent
at Barband. „ ^
In 1913, the distribution of Russian troops m the district was as
^Astarabad. —Two Companies 19th Turkistan Rifles, 200 Toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. Cosaacks.
Mashad-i-Sar.—One Company 19th Turkistan Rifles, 100 Toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. Cosssacks.
Bdrfarush. —One Company 19th Turkistan Rifles, 100 Toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , Cossackss.
In the troubles succeeding the death of Nadir Shah, Mazandaran, which
was the native province of the Qajars, followed the fortunes of Agha
Muhammad, and since his fmal war has remained in undisputed possession
of the Persian Crown. _ _
On July 18th, 1911, the ez-Sha]^ Muhammad 'All Qajar, landed at Oumesii
Tappeh near Astarabad, and after g°i n g to Shahrud, he advanced m
two columns through Mazandara^ towards Tehran. The southern
column defeated government troops a t Bamghan on August It an