'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎148r] (302/820)

there is one large one in the village, and several smaller ones round.
The plain is cultivated for miles round in patches, and yields over 1,000
Icharwars of grain in a good year (700,000 lh), in a bad year about 300
kharwdrs (210,000 lb). It is the property of the Mu’azzaz-ul-Mulk, who
some years ago bought it from the Shah.
Some eight miles to the north-east are the remains of a band, with
brackish stream, known as Band-i-Shah. This band has been broken down
for years. The stream is a favourite camping ground for Baluchis, 200
or 300 of whose tents can be seen there in the spring and early summer.
These Baluchis weave the .best nomad rugs in Khorasan.
There are two other small villages near:—Sadrabad or Band-i-Uzbeg
some four miles to the north-west, and Kaleh Nau about four miles to
north-east.
The Post road from Turbat to Gunabad passes through the village,
and two dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. sowars are stationed here.—(IFafson, 1906.) £ee Jangal.
JUQAR (No. 1)-
A village in the Radkan sub-division of the Meshed district of Khora
san, situated 2£ miles from Chinaran on the road to Radkan. It has
a population of 50 families of Kurds who own 200 cattle, 1,000 sheep and
10 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley is 200 khar-
wars. — (Oranoffsky, 1894:; Smyth, 1906.)
JCQAR (No. 2)—
One of a ^cluster of four villages in Khorasan called collectively
Chehar Deh. They are situated about 10 miles from Tabas, on the road
to Yazd, and contain together about 800 inhabitants.— {Stewart ; Gill.)
JtJRATAN or GURATAN— Elev. 3,900'.
A village in the Juvain district of Khorasan, 11 miles from Safiabad,
12 miles from Dishkijan (or Dasturan) and 19 miles from Jaghatai. It
contains about 30 families.
Water good. Supplies procurable.— (C. E. Yate.)
JGRBUD— Lat. 37° 7' 0"; 56° 44' 80".—{Stewart.)
A village of 70 houses in Northern Khorasan, situated about 5 miles
west of Sankhas and 1 mile north of the road, thence to Jajarm, on the
slopes of the Buhar mountain.
This village marks the site of the old city of Jurbad the ruins of which
are still to be seen. The high mound on which stands the present village
of Ja’afarabad, a little distance from the village, forms the ruins of the
citadel of the old city.— {Napier ; Schindler ; C. E. Yate.)
JURlZ—
A walled village in Tabas district, Khoiasan, 7 miles south-east of that
town, containing 200 houses inhabited by Persians.— {Ferrier.)
JURJAN—
Ruins of an old city in the Gurgan sub-division of Astarabad lying
about 60 miles north-east of that town near Gumbad-i-Kabus. See Gur
gan (city).— {Kinneir; Napier ; C. E. Yate.)
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