'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎232r] (468/706)

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NlDAVAND—
A division of the Lak tribe, living about Kazvin and Fars .—{Vide Lak.)
nadirAbAd—
A small village, about 2 miles from Bisitun, in Kirmanshah, between it
and Sahneh.— {Taylor.) Does not exist now as the Khuzal Lurs have
joined the other villages.— {Soane, 1912.)
NAiMABAD—
A village south of the road from Deh Mulla to Damghan, and near the
former.— {Bellew.)
NAIN— Lat. 31° 51' 52"; Long. 53° 4' 10"; Elev. 5,300'.
A town in the Nam district of the province of Yazd. It lies compara
tively high between the Bilabad or Surmeh-Kuh mountains on the west and
a short irregular range of no great height on the east, at the junction of
Yazd-Tehran and Yazd-Isfahan roads. The town is in a ruinous condi
tion containing some 1,000 inhabited houses and as many empty ones,
population about 5,000. It has a bazaar which is roofed in, and contains
about 60 shops. There are four caravansarais, a telegraph station of the Indian
Government, Central Persian line (see also below), a chaparkhaneh, and a
post office. Water plentiful from kanats, but somewhat brackish. The town
is built in an oblong form lying east and west. It is surrounded by a
wall of sun-dried bricks and also by a ditch, both of which are in a more
or less ruinous condition, specially on the western side, where the ground
outside the walls completely commands the town. The average height of
the walls is 25 feet and they are strengthened by semi-circular loopholed
towers which project at intervals. The ditch is 12 to 15 feet in depth and
19 to 20 feet broad.
The gateways are five in number. Those at the eastern end and centre
of the south face are in good repair, and built in the usual Persian style. The
ditch and wall in the places above-mentioned are merged in the houses and
gardens, the ditch at those points being completely filled in. There are a
few houses outside the walls and opposite the south gate. Walled gardens
stretch from the west end and lie along the north face of the town. The coun
try is cultivated to the east and north. Water is supplied by 3 or 4 kandt
streams entering the town from the south-west, and by a stream from the
west 4 feet broad and 1 foot deep, running two miles an hour. This latter
forms the chief supply.
There is a large square masonry building with a blue dome outside the
town. It has round corner towers, and must be 70 or 80 yards square.
The entrance faces the town.
Nam is now under the Governor of Yazd, and is governed by one of his naiba
The mdhdt is about 350 tumdns.
Supplies are estimated at 5,000 sheep and goats. Grain, Ihusa and
flour are also procurable in fair quantities.
Transport 300 camels. The tax on camels here is Rs. 6 a head per annum,
while at Anarak it is only Rs. 2.— {Vaughan.)