'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎318r] (654/820)

QAR—QAH 611
100 Persian families who own 250 cattle, 5,000 sheep and goats, 60 horses
and 25 transport mules or ponies. The normal annual production of wheat
and barley amounts to 2,800 Indian maunds.— {MacGregor ; Napier ;
Oranofjfsky, 1894.)
QARIABAD—
A little walled village of Shahrhd-Bustam, 6 miles east of Shahrud, on
the road to Maiamai. It has heaps of ruins about it and a patch of green
fields.— (Rozario .)
qariak—
A village of Khorasan, 26 miles from Khaf, on the road to Chahrakhts
(Shahrakht).— {Stewart.)
QARJl—
A small village of 10 houses in the Juvain district about 16 miles north
east of Jaghatai.—(ScAmdZer.)
QARKAN or KURKAN—
A village in the Kuh Paieh district of Shahrud-Bustam.— {Schindler.)
QARLUK—
A village in the Garma Khan sub-division of the Bujnurd district in
Khorasan.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
QARNIVA—
A vaTey in the Gurgan. The Qarniva valley runs into the Kara Bal-
khan valley from the north, and is, in fact, the most northern settlement
of the Guk’ans. It is inhabited by the Shaikh Khwaja section of the
Guklan Turkomans, who are all Saiyids and number some 250 families
QiHch Ishan, the head priest of the Guklans,. lives in this valley. He
has great influence over all the Guklans, both those in Gurgan as well as
others in Kara Kala, Chandir, and Khiva. He was at Khiva some 15
years ago, and says the portion of the tr be located there numbers some
500 families. He is a man of about 50 years of age, with two sons,
Habibullah and Khalilullah, one of whom will probably succeed him, al
though he has also a brother with a by-no-means priestly-looking count
enance, who may try to get the place for himself.
The Ishan is now busy building a Madraseh (college) near his own obd
(settlement). The priest has rather a good library, chiefly of Qurans and
religious books presented to him by his followers, but also containing some
Bombay-printed story books said to have been purchased in Bokhara.—•
{C. E. Yate, 1894.)
QARSI—
Ruins of an old mud fort situated on a hillock to the south of the vil
lage of Jaghatai, the head-quarters of the Juvain d’.strict. It is some 50
yards square.— {G. E. Yate.)
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