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YAK—YAM
YAKSAR—
A village at the northern end of the Mazdaqan district, some miles
north of Nuvaran.—($c/mid£er.)
YALEH—
Also Yaleh-gumbad, a village in the Kazvin district, a couple of miles
east of Mazrah and to the right of the high road from Kazvin to Rasht.
Some distance east of the village and on a hill stands a tower called
Yaleh ^umbad, i.e., the tower of Yaleh. Some say that Yal or Yaleh
was a great Persian pahlevan (hero), that the tower was built by him
and that the village took its name from the tower ; others say that the
tower takes its name from the village Yaleh.— {Schindler).
YALGHUZAGHACH—
A village of 50 houses in Ardalan, 15| miles south of Khasruabad on
the road to Sangar and Kirmanshah.— (Napier.)
YALPAN—
A village of 100 houses, about 6 miles souh-east from Hamadan, on
the road to Daulatabad Malayar. There is a stream of the same name
crossed by a single-arched bridge £ mile from the village; | mile from the
bridge on the banks of the river is a building, now ruined, once inhabited
by Prince Khusrau Mirza, who had been blinded by order of the Shah and
died in 1875.— (Schindler.)
YlLU— Elev. 7,630'.
A village of Mazandaran, situated on a river of the same name, which,
rising near the Palang Darvazeh, flows north into the Nur at Ursusi, It
is north-west of the Damavand Kuh at some distance.— (Lovett.)
YAM—
A village of 130 houses in north-western Azarbaijan between Sufian
and Marand on the Tabriz-Kh5I road.— (Picot, 1894.)
YAMANAN (Lower)— Elev. 5,500'.
In the valley of the same name above its junction with the Gavarra
river, Persian Kurdistan, consists of 30 houses of Kurds. The village
is dirty and wretched-looking and the houses mere filthy hovels ; it presents a
great contrast to the luxuriant cornfields and the fine walnut, poplars and oak
trees lining the abundant stream draining the valley. About 1£ miles higher
up is Upper Yamanan. The hillsides are bare of trees, but hold small bushes
and abundant grass. The valley is here very narrow, the cultivable
ground being only about 100 yards wide : 1 | miles below, it opens out some
what. The mountains rise very steeply to either hand.— (Burton.)
YAMANAN (Upper)— Elev. 5,670'.
Stands in the valley of the same name 1J miles above Lower Yamanan.
The valley here is a mere gorge ; the strip of cultivation only 30 or 40
yards broad: fine walnut trees line the rushing stream : there are also
gome willow, poplar and fruit trees. The mountains rise very steeply to