'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎385v] (795/820)

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YANKIJEH— Elev. 5,350'.
A village of 200 houses, in the Sar-i-Vilaiat district of Khorasan, 18
miles fom Chaqaneh, 7 miles from Khwaja-abad and 12 miles from
Fathabad. It lies some 3 miles to the north or north by east of the
solitary hill, Kuh-i-Mar or Markuh. Water good. Supplies plentiful
(0. E. Yate.)
YAQUTAIN—
A village in the Jam district of Khorasan, 3 miles from the village of
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam. It consists of 60 families of Persians and Jam-
shidis, who own 150 cattle and 300 sheep and goats. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley is 300 khancdrs. — (Oranoftsky, 1894 •
Smyth, 1906.)
YARAMJEH—
Name of hills in the Safiabad district of Khorasan.— (C.E. Yate.)
YARAM TAPPEH (Half mound)—
Name of a mound in the Yamut country in the Astaralad district, 8 miles
from Qaplan Tappeh {q.v.), near which lie the settlements of Kan Yukhmaz
Chiimur Yamut Turkomans.
The Kara Su stream, which flows at the foot of this mound, has washed
away about half of its south face, which has given it the name of Yaiam
Tappeh, or half mound.— (C. E. Yate, 1894.)
YARTIQ KALEH-Lat. 38° 10' 0" ; Long. 56° 20' 0*.
A village in northern Khorasan on the Chandir river.— {Stewart.)
YASAQI—
A village of 30 houses, about 28 miles from Kuchan on the road to Radkan.
It lies on the southern portion of the Kuchan district, and south of it the
Radkan district begins. The junction of the Kuehan-Meshed and Darreh Graz-
Meshed roads is here.— {Schindler.)
From Darreh Gaz to Meshed the route is the same as that to Mankah,
whence it follows that to Kuchan for 3 miles, where the Meshed road goes
off to the right, and, ascending a valley, comes over the main range by the
pass to Yasaqi, whence to Meshed it goes to the valley by Radkan, China-
ran, etc.— {MacGregor.)
YASMAN—
Formerly an Akhal Turkoman fort, the eighth from Gavars towards the
north-west and 36 miles distant.— {MacGregor.)
YAS TAPPEH— (Mound of despair)—
A long mound, about a mile to the west of the frontier or most westerly
obd (settlement) of the Guklan Turkomans (belonging to the Yankak section).
Yas Tappeh at present marks the limit between the territories occupied
by the Gublan and Yamut Turkomans.—(G.^. Yate, 1894.)