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MESHED-I-BUZAM— Elev . 3,700'.
A place in north-west of Khorasan, 14 miles south-west of Kara Kala, on
the road to Astarabad.— {Taylor; Thomson.)
MESHED-I-GHULAMAN-Lat. 38° U' 3"; Long. 56“ 58' V-(Intelligence
Division, Vfar Office). -
A village on the Russo-Pereian frontier in the BujnQrd district of
Khorasan, 15 miles from Muhammadabad and 10 miles from Raz, situated
in the Upper Sunt valley. 19
The present village of Meshed-i-Ghulaman was founded only some 12
years ago, when thl Garmab and Kulkulab villages were vacated by the
Persians and the families removed to this and other places, on those
villages being handed over to Russia in accordance with Article III of the
Akhal-Khorasan Boundary Convention of 21st December 1881.
The present houses are built just outside the ruined gateway and walls
of a former town, said to have been built by Nadir and subsequently des-
troyed by an earthquake. The village lies in the centre of a long, shallow,
uplandvalley, known as the Julgah-i-Kular covered with grass, afiordmg
eX The horizon on the north is bounded by the Tagharan range, and to the
south lies the parallel Bash Tappeh range. Both of these ranges can be,
ridden over anywhere and are covered with grass and small junipers,
rocks only crop up occasionally. From Meshed-i-Ghulaman or, as it is known,
to the Turkomans, Kullar-i-Meshed, the valley runs down in a north-west
erly direction to Suksu, distant, it was said, 2 farsakhs. Two farsakhs again
bevond that was said to be the Russian-Turkoman village of Dama. buksu,
though is entirely uninhabited and I did not go there, but the valley is
said to drain from SukSu to Kuhneh Kasri on the Russianjrontier.—
(C. E. Yate, 1894.)
MESHED-I-RIZA— Lat. 34° 51' 40"; Long. 60° 18' 0" {St. John).
Two small villages on the more westerly of the two roads from Meshed
to Herat, 19 miles from Shahr-i-Nau and 14 miles from Taiabad, in the
Bakharz district of Khorasan. The two villages are about one mile apart,
but connected by cultivation. The water-supply is good and plentiful,
and there is plenty of cultivation and many young plantations of mulberry
^Riza contains about 250 houses and has three qanats of water and 45
ploughs of land. Meshed, the adjoining village, contains some 180 houses
and has two qanats and 25 ploughs. The two villages together are gene
rally known as Meshed i-Riza, from the shrine and mausoleum of Shahzadeh
Qasim, a descendant of Abu Bakr, who is said by tradition to have been
murdered, while conducting prayers, by an unbeliever. The shrine, how
ever, is now in ruins, and there seems to be nobody to look after it.
The only man found there was a Kandahari faqir. — {0. E. Yate, 1894;
{Watson, 1908.)
MESHED QULl—
A-village 8 miles from Meshed on the road to Kachan.—(Scfondkr.) ,,