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KAK-KAR
miles from the former and 87 miles from the latter, in the Bujnurd district
of northern Khorasan. The water-supply is scanty, but there are the
ru ns of numerous old qandts all over the plain, which doubtless could be
opened out again, were the people and cap: al available.—(C. E. Yate.)
KARA BUQEH or KARA BUGHA or QAR’A BAGH-
A village of Khorasan, situated on the Kashaf Rud, about 21 miles east
of Meshed and 1 mile south of the road to Sarakhs. It is inhabited by
Jamshidia— (Petrusevitch ; Thomson’, Galindo.)
KARA CHANDl—
A stage in northern Khorasan, about 20 mi’es south of Kara Kala on
^.the road to Astarabad by Nardin.— {Taylor \ Thomson.)
KARA CHASHMEH or SAFAR AQA—
See Takht-i-Chul Bill.
KARA CHEHCHEH— Lat. 36' 47' 30 ; Long. 60° 32' 30".
A village in northern Khorasan 25 miles from Sarakhs. It was once
occupied by Persians, but the Turkomans demolished it, and a new settle
ment sp ang up at new Ch hch n h, at a short distance from the former one.
Both Kara Ch hch 'h and new CE ■ heirK stand on the Khur stream. The
new settlement is situated at the entrance of the Khur in a rocky fissure,
£ mile long. Old Ch hcheh stood on the plain, and was not naturally
defended ; while the mountains, which close in the former, are perfectly
impassable. There is plenty of water from a stream, which is lost before
reaching the Tejen.
New Ch^hch h has passed into Russian hands, but old Ce hcheh is in
Persian territory.— {Petrusevitch ; Napier ; Stewart.)
KARA DAGH— Elev. 9,800'.
A range of hills in Khorasan, some 30 miles north of Meshed, attaining
a height of nearly 10,000 feet. They are the eastern portion of the
Daman-i-Kuh, and are described as rising from the valley in huge, swelling
bluffs, topped everywhere by a crest of perfectly perpendicular and
impracticable cliffs of grey rock. On the south these bluffs dip suddenly
down to the stream, and then rise with equa 1 abruptness into what appears
to be a second parallel range, but which is separated at different
points by watercourses, whose sides are bounded by precipices 200 to 300
feet high, and whose beds form the darbands through which the road
passes. On both sides of this range, which is a spur of the main watershed
between the drainage of Meshed and that of the Atak, va leys run down to
the east and drain out into the Atak plain. According to some authorities,
“ Qaran Dagh ” is the name of the range, “ Kara Dagh ” Uing only
applied to the easternmost peak which attains-a height of 7,800 f.et.—
{MacGreg >r.)
KARA GIF AN— Lat. 37° 31' 0"; Long. 56° 15' M".—{Napie )
A village in Kurdish Khorasan, situated in the hills to the north of
Chunda ’Abbas.—(Napier.)