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YAFTABAD—
A village a few miles from Tehran on the road to Saveh.— {Abbott.)
YAGHMISH (PANG! YAGMISH)—
About 97 miles from Isfahan on the road to Yazd. It consists only of
a caravansarai, said to have been built by Shah ’Abbas. Some of it is
built of rubble, the gate, some of the bastions and the whole of the parapet
of good brick; both gateway and parapet are loopholed. Two gua ds
belonging to the Yazd Government occupy it; they are in charge of the
road, which is at times much used and is infested by robbers from Fars
and Isfahan. There is no cultivation, and only two wells of brackish and
bitter water ; all supplies are brought from Varzaneh. The country round
is most dreary and desolate, the hills are bare and black and on the plain
is a little low scrub.— {Preece, October, 1892.)
YAGHULI GADUK—
A low range of hills passed by the Tehran-Hamadan road at an eleva
tion of 5,ICO', 130 miles from Tehran.— {Schindler.)
yahyaabad—
A village in the Damghan district, 2| miles south-east of Qusheh.—-
{Schindler.)
YAIKAN—
A village of 400 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, 1 mile west of
Marand.— {Picot, 1894.)
YAILAQ (Ailak or Eilak). {Yaildq means “ summer quarters ”)
One of the 18 buluks of Kurdistan east of Sinandij with 100 villages and
a population of 10,000, mostly Shafai Sunnis. Many Zands also reside in it.
The annual taxes used to amount to 36,140 Jcrdns, but have lately been
reduced. The district is cold, but produces good cotton. It has no trees,
but the shrub called ‘ gadameh ’ {kaunieh) is plentiful and makes a good
substitute for firewood.
The buluk is famous for its red c muhammadi ’ roses, and foxes and hares
abound in it.
The following tribes inhabit the district :—
Gurgai, 300 tents; Lakk 1.000 tents; andShamshiri 400 tents. See also
Rabino’s “Report on Kurdistan”. — {Schindler, 1902; Rabino 1911.)
YAILAQABAD—
A village in the Kazvin district, 5 miles west of Kuhln on the slopes of the
Kuh-i-Kaghazan;
YAK AIN—See Khar Dasht.
YAKBA KHAN—
A police post 9 miles from Raushan on the north-west shore of Lake
Urumieh in Azarbaijan. It lies 11 miles north of Guchl.— {Gerard.)