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NASRABAD (2)—
A village about 20 miles from Tehran, on the road to Saveh.— {Abbott.)
NASRABAD (3)—
A village of ten houses, 36 miles east of Hamadan and 6 miles from Zarreh
and 140 from Tehran on the Hamadan-Tehran lo&di.—{Schindler.)
NASRABAD (4)—
A village 50 miles from Tehran on the road to Kazvin.— {Ouseley.)
NASRABAD (5)—
A village 1 to 4 miles from Kashan, on the Tehran road. It is surrounded
by a mud wall, and contains 300 houses, with a caravansarai, some corn
fields and cotton plantations, and is celebrated for its melon beds. The
inhabitants are noted for their idleness and propensity to voluptuousness,
so that one who comes the fine gentleman is called a Mirza of Nasrabad.—
{Morier; Ouseley.)
NASRABAD (7)—
A village 3£ miles north of Kazvin.— {Schindler.) !
NASRABAD ( 8 )—
A village, 57| miles from Kazvin, on the road to Tabriz, in the Kham-
seh district.— {Schindler.)
NASRABAD (9)—
A considerable village in the Mishkin division of Azarbaijan about 40
miles from Ahar and some 50 from Ardabil. It is situated on the side
of a deep ravine running from the hills to north of the io^.—{Holmes;
Todd.)
NATANZ (Province)—
l This small province occupies the hilly region between Kashan and Isfahan
' and part of the plain between Kashan and Ardistan. The assessed revenue
in 1896 was 162,795 krdns. The province contains 82 villages and hamlets
and has a population of about 23,000. It is divided into four districts, named
after the four principal streams, viz., Barzrud, Natanzrud, Tarkrud and Bad-
rud. The first mentioned is the largest and contains practically the whole
of the western half of the province ; Badrud is the smallest and consists of the
eastern part of the province j Natanzrud is in the centre and Tarkrud contains
the southern part of the province.
Badrud is in the plains, the other districts are mostly hilly, Barzrud
altogether so. The Governor of the province is appointed by Hissam*
us-Sultaneh and resides at Natanz in the Natanzrud district.—(£c/mid-
ler.)
NATANZ—(Town)—E lev. 5,670'.
A small town situated in the Natanzrud district of the Natanz province,
1 in a fertile and secluded valley open to the south-east. Its distance by road
from Isfahan, via Sardhan, is 69 miles; from Kashan via Buzabad 53 miles