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vineyards and mulberry gardens, which latter produced about 10 Jcharwars
(6,500 lbs.) of silk per annum, but after his death they were gradually cut
down and disappeared. Haji Hasan ’All left a son named Sikandar
Khan, who was murdered in 1894, and the village is now utterly neglected.
The water of ’ Amrani (from a Mrlz) is brackish but drinkable, and supplies
are procurable in small quantities.— (Maula Bakhsh ; Molesworth, 1907.)
AMRIKAN—
A village in the Mian Vilaiat sub-division of the Meshed district of
Khorasan, to the right of the road to Chinaran from Meshed. Water
good. Supplies procurable.— {Maula BaJchsh.)
’AMRtD KftH—
A village in the sub-division of Tun in the Tabas district of Khorasan
— {Bellew.)
’AMSARlZ—
A village of Eastern Khorasan, 5 miles north-east of Bajistan, on the
road to Turbat-i-Haidari. It has about 100 houses, and cultivation
near it.— {Rozario.)
AMURAT—
A village in the Kadkan district of north-eastern Khorasan. It is
inhabited by 50 families of Kaivanlu Kurds who own 50 cattle, 1,500
sheep an d goats, 120 camels and 10 horses. The normal annual production
of wheat and barley amounts to 5,400 Indian maunds.—(Orawo/sA-?/, 1894.)
’ANABtj—
A spring and two houses, 2 miles from Gabar, passed on the read to
ZugdI in Western Khorasan, 48 miles from the Kaleh-i-Mura stream, and
about 30 miles south of Blrjumand.— {Stewart.)
ANAHZAN, or ANIZAN—
A sub-division of the Astarabad district forming the western border
of that district. It is divided from Sadam Rustak by the KurdMahalleh
Chai stream. It is covered with impenetrable forest, and traversed by
numerous small streams flowing in deep and muddy beds. It is thinly
peopled, and Shah Kuh-u-Savar has scarcely any population, its quota
for the Astarabad regiment being only 130 mem The chief place is Nau
Kandeh.— {Napier ; Astarabad Trade Report, 1909.)
’ANAN— Lat. 37° 29' 0"; Long. 57° 27' 0"—{Intelligence Division, War
Office-) ,
A village in Northern Khorasan, about 2 miles east of Bujnurd.—
{Intelligence Division, War Office.)
ANAR—Lat. 30° 53' 22" ; Long. 55° 16' 30"; Elev. 4,431'.
A village in Kirman, 93 miles from Yazd, and 127 miles from Kirman,
on the road between these towns. A prosperous village of 400 houses with
2,000 inhabitants. Anar is the head of a small district of the same name.
I It lies to the east of a range of hills, of which the most prominent peak is