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A1Y—AKH
AIYUN—
A hamlet in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, a short distance to
the west of Kaleh-i-Nau (q.v.).
Ajangan—
A small village in the Meshed valley in Khorasan.—(A/an^a Bakhsh.)
AK BAND—
A place at the foot of the Gukcha Dagh hills in the Yamflt country
forming the winter quarters of the Chdrva Yamuts.
The number of Chdrvd Yamuts of all sections corrected there in
the winter is said to amount to about 800 families.^—(C. E. Yate.)
AKBAR—
A pass in Khorasan, south of Askhabad, on the road to Meshed.
AKBARABAD—
A village in Khorasan on the road between Khaf and Turbat-i-Haidari
30 miles from the former and 40 miles from the latter. It is surrounded
by a wall, and consists of 70 houses containing 260 inhabitants, and
possesses 100 cattle, 500 sheep and goats. There is a considerable amount
of cultivation in the neighbourhood, and the annual production of wheat
and barley in ordinary years (f wheat, $ barley) is about 3,960 Indian
maunds. Water-supply from a kdrlz.—(C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
AKBARl—
A village in the Nlmbuluk sub-division of the Kain district of Khora
san.— (Bellew.)
AKDARBAND— Lat. 36° 6' 0"; Long. 61° 5' 0".—(Napier.)
A pass in^ the Tabadkan sub-division of Eastern Khorasan, the inhabi
tants of which are Kurds and Tunuris of various tribes. It is situated in
the Mazdaran mountains on the southernmost road from Meshed to Sarakhs,
91 miles from the former, and 38 miles from the latter. It guards
both the mountain pass and the passage of the Kashaf Rhd, flowing between
its scarped banks. From the east the pass is closed by towers placed in com
manding positions overhanging the defile, so that the position of Akdar-
band becomes one of very considerable importance as regards the defence-
of this frontier, as by it lies the only practicable road between Maz
daran and the range bounding the Meshed valley on the south. The towers
at the entrance are held by a garrison of 50 Persian horsemen and a few
infantry. Its name signifies the “White pass.”—(TAowson ; MacGregor L
Napier; Stewart.) L *
AKHIRKUH (“Last Mountain”)—
A high peak a few miles north-east of Bujnurd, so called because west
wards and northwards, as far as the outer Atak ridge and Kara Kaleh, there
is nothing visible but a wide expanse of comparatively low, broken country,
ormed of ridges and plateaux cut up by innumerable ravines. —(Napier :
MacGregor.) v ^