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and lias its water from a canal fed by the Shaughan river (also Kara
Su) The village is built on an old mound and contains about
families of Turks. According to the Shah’s diarist (1867), this mound
forms the ruins of the citadel of the old city of Jurbad, which formerly
existed here .—(Ncipicf \ Schindlct , C. E. Ycitc.)
JA’AFABABAD (No. 7)—
A village of 20 houses in the Juvain plain, about 22 miles north-west
of Jaghatai.— (Schindler.)
JA’AFARABlD (No. 8)-Lat. 37° 12' 40"; Long. 58° 14' ±0".—(Napier.)
A village in Northern Khorasan, 5 miles from old Khchan, on the road
to Bujnurd. It is said to have lost seventy people from an earthquake
in 1872.— (MacGregor.)
JA’AFARABAD (No. 9)-Lat. 37° 1' 0"; Long. 58° 34' 30".-(Napier.)
A large village with a lazdr in Khorasan, about 20 miles south-east of
old Kuchan, on the cart-road to Radkan and Meshed. It contains about
80 houses of Za’af aranlu Kurds and Turks, and is the first village in the dis
trict of Kuchan in this direction. There are few gardens or trees here,
the dryness of the climate and the high winds prevalent m the winter and
spring which destroy all vegetation not protected by a covering of snow,
leave the villagers dependent on their wheat crops. In the famine years
1870-72 the wheat failed, and the village was almost destroyed, only, 30
families’ remaining. In 1894 the inhabitants possessed 100 cattle, 800
sheep and goats, and 40 horses; the production of wheat and barley was
4,500 and 7,700 Indian maunds, respectively. — (Schindler ; Oranoffsky,
1894.)
JA’AFARABAD (No. 10)— Lat. 34° 46' 30"; Long. 59° 25' 0\—(Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, 42 miles from Khaf, on the road to Turshiz.—
(Taylor.)
JA’AFARABAD (No. 11)—Elev. 5,700'.
A village in the Sehdeh valley, situated about a mile to the east of the
road between Birjand and] Kain, about 3 miles to the south-east of Seh
deh It consists of 100 houses and an old ruined fort and has some 80
inhabitants, 30 cattle, 400 sheep and goats. The annual production^ of
wheat and barley (f wheat, ^ barley) is about 50 kharwdrs or 225 Indian
maunds. There is a water-mill capable of grinding 9 maunds (Indian)
in 24 hours. There is excellent and abundant camel-grazing in the
Sehdeh valley. The mdlidt of the village is one-tenth of the produce
in kind, and 1 hr dm per Jcharwdr in cash. Water-supply from a kdriz,
slightly brackish.—(C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
JA’AFARABAD (No. 12)—
A hamlet in Khorasan, 102 miles south-south-east of Meshed, on the
Kail eh Minar road to Herat. Population 15 families of Baluchis, who
usually spend the winter at Khaf.— (Sykes, 1905.)
JA’AFARABAD 'No. 13) (Kerman)—
A place 119 miles from Kirman towards Tabas.— (Kenneir.)