'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎5v] (15/820)

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ABA—ABB
ABARSlj—
A large village in the Kuhpaleh sub-district of ShahrM-Bustam, situated
in a glen of the Shahvar Kiih. It has 350 houses, 2 baths, and 14 mosques.
Four of these mosques are old ones. The place also has a college with 20
I students.
The Mu’aiyir-ul-Mamalik (Mint-master) of Nadir Shah was an Abarsiji
; and was the ancestor of the present Mu’aiyir-ul-Mamalik, Dust Muhammad
Khan, who, however, has only the title without being actual Mint-master ;
I he is a son-in-law of Nasir-ud-Din Shah, having married the Shah’s eldest
daughter.
Abarsij is infested with a kind of tarantula called rutail (Arab rutaila ').—
(Schindler.)
abasIr—
A principal village of the district of Pusht-i-Bustam, in Khorasan, some
8 miles north-east of Bustam. A few supplies and water procurable.^—
(MacGregor.)
ABB AS AB AD (No. 1)—
A village in the Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam district of Khorasan, on the main
caravan road between Meshed and Herat, 117 £ miles from the former
place.
It was built by Shah ’Abbas but was deserted during the Turkoman
raids, and was repaired and repopulated in 1898. The caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is in
very bad repair, but the karizes have now been opened up and the place
is inhabited by 30 families, who are all Sunnis. There is a little cultivation,
and the annual production of wheat and barley is about 2,050 Indian maunds.
It is now used as a halting-place between Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam and Kariz.
The headman is Haji Mahmud Khan.— (Mania Bakh'sh ; C. Wanliss, 1903.)
’ABBASABAD (No. 2)— Lat. 36° 10' 0" ; Long. 58° 52' 0".—(Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, 6 miles from Nlshapur, and a little to the south
of the road to Meshed. It has water and cultivation and numerous villages
near it. It contains 40 families.— (H. M. Temple.)
’ABBASlBAD (No. 3)— Lat. 36° 22' 0" N.; Long. 56° 22' 15" E. ; Elev.
( 3,008'.— (Lemm.)
2,772'.— (Schindler.)
A village in Khorasan, 385 miles north-east of Isfahan, 180 miles west
of Meshed, on the high road to Tehran. It is a small village containing
Borne 80 families. There is a high mud fort with a good spring of water
inside. It lies 22 miles from Mazinan, and the same from Miandasht. It
is situated on the south side of a range of mountains, and with the serai
stands in tiers on a ridge of slate overlooking the desert to the south, pre
senting a picturesque appearance in strong contrast with the surrounding
waste, from its neighbouring gardens. But there is little cultivation,
almost all supplies having to be brought from Mazinan_ or Sabzau ar,
miles. The village and caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). were erected by Shah Abbas lor the.
benefit of caravans crossing the dese-A He brought 40 Georgian families