"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٧٠٦/٤٢)

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but oecomea a rapid torrent in the spring. It is crossed about 14 miles
north-west of Enzali.— (Holmes.)
ALFAVUT—
A village, about 15 miles south-east of Hamadan, to the left of the road
to Daulatabad Malayar.— (Schindler.)
ALL—
A village near Onir (Alni ?), 40 miles north-west of Ardabil in Aear-
baijan on the road to Ahar.— (Holmes; Todd.)
’ALLABAD (1)—Lat. 36° 27' 49", Long. 52° 51*. (Lemm.)
A village in Mazandaran, 12 miles south of Barfarush. It is said to contain
400 houses ; but only a few stalls, forming a bazar, surrounded by some
miserable huts, are visible. At this place the roads from Barfarush and
Sari meet. Ouseley, however, says of it :—
‘ ‘ There are many large and handsome houses here, reminding one of
Brabant and Flanders, some of them being roofed with very good red tiles/ 1
and Stuart seems to agree with him.
Eastwick says it is surrounded with thickets of the box tree from 10
to 15 feet high. It is a village of mendicants who are eternally saluting every
traveller with the cry of ‘ hak ! hak ’ ! The only healthy place is the ceme
tery, or Imamzadeh, a building not inferior to, and with very much the
air of, a country churchyard in England. The gateway of this building is
where travellers usually rest.
Melgunoff (1864) says of it; it is situated on the Talar river and has 400
houses. Among the inhabitants are some Janbeglu and Madanlu Kurds.
The village has frequently been raided by Turkomans. Shah ’Abbas built
a palace there and the great paved road or causeway passed through the
village. Rice and cotton are much cultivated and much silk is also pro
duced. Wild pig 5 abound in the rice fields and the people have the custom
of hanging the heads of the pigs they kill on trees, which increases the noxious
exhalations.— (Melgunoff, 1864; Ouseley; Eastwick; Holmes, Stuart:
Schindler, 1910.)
’ALlABAD (2)—
A village, 8 miles west of Damghan, on the road to Gusheh. It contains
about 70 houses. Cultivation’and water.— (DeRozario.)
'ALlABAD (3)—
A small village in the Damghan district, 12 miles south of Damghan—
(Schindler.)
’ALlABAD (4)—
A small village on the border of the Mishkin district of Azarbaijan, 37 miles
north-west of Ardabil,— (Holmes.)
’ALlABAD (5)—
A village in the Hasht Rud district of Azarbaijan, situated 4 miles south
east of Saraskand. It consists of a knot of two or three villages in a rich
country among undulating hills,—(Morier.)
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