'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎368v] (761/820)

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TUR—TUR
—viz., Tabas, south-west; Kain, south-east ; and Mlaik, north—and a clear
space of about 400 yards has been left all round. It contains some 1,500
houses, inhabited by Persians. It has handsome bazars, mosques, and
caravanserais, built of burnt-brick ; and its gardens are large and numerous.
A. good deal of trade is carried on. The productions are opium, silk, cotton,
tobacco, and fruits. Water is scarce, and the corn crops are consequently
light. In years of drought wheat for consumption has to be imported.
Camels and sheep are numerous ; horses, scarce.
From Birjand to r lun is 53 miles over a cultivated country, covered with
villages. Some years ago a Persian army marched from Tun to Tehran
in seven days.— (Ferrier ; Lumsden ; MacGregor.)
TTJRAN (No. 1)—
A village in the Darreh Gaz Atak, about 2 miles from the last low range of
hills, at the mouth of the pass leading from Darreh Gaz to the Atak. It is
defended by good walls, with towers and a ditch.— {Napier.)
TCRAN (No. 2) or TAUR0N or TURGN— Lat. 35° 38' 0"; Long. 56°
58' O'”— {Napier).
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Khfir to Sabzawar, and 60 miles
from the latter town. The road from ShahrQd to Turshiz crosses here
Turan consists of a village and fort built on a plateau. There is a stream
of good water here, which is quite warm at its source. Supplies are very
scarce.— {Taylor ; MacGregor.)
A village in the Kharva THran sub-district of Shahrfid-Bustam.
{Schindler.)
TURBAT—
The name given to a spur of the Tun range of mountains, which leaves
the parent range near the Kalat pass and runs to the east towards Khaf,
after passing the longitude of which place it turns north, and runs between
Turbat-i-Haidari and Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam: and thus it crosses the road
between Meshed and Turbat-i-Haidari.— {MacGregor.)
TURBAT-I-HAIDARl (No. 1) (District)—
A district in Khorasan. Its boundary to the north is Kuh-i-Muham-
mad Mirza and Khh-i-B idar, on the east the Bakharz range, on the west
Turshiz, on the southeast Khaf and on the south-west Kal-i-Shur.
To the ’east Turbat-i-Ha : dari is thickly dotted with villages and well
General description. cultivated; to the west it is bounded by sand-
hills; while southwards stretches a barren waste
as far as Buzinabad, so sparsely populated that caravans prefer the
roundabout route to Kain via Gunabad.
For purposes of revenue and administration the district is divided into
Sub-divisions. ] 1 sub-divisions, viz .—
^ Uk £’ Rushkll ar, (3) Sangan, (4) Haul-u-Haushur Turbat,
Rurs j ( 6 ) Katkan, (7) Azqand, (8) Zava, (9) Mahvilat,
(10) Baiaq and (11) Jangal.