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The production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, J barley) in ordinary years
amounts to about 28,000 Indian maunds. The water-supply is from
a stream furnished by the Band-i-Fariman {q.v.), situated in the hills 7 miles
to the south. There is a caravanserai in the village.
The plain on which Faiiman is situated produces excellent pasture, and
the place is renowned for an excellent breed of cows.— (Wanliss, 1903 ;
Sykes, 1905.)
FARlMAN (No. 2 )—Elev. 3,900'.
A small village in the Isfarain district of Khorasan, 7 miles from the
ruins of the old town of Isfaraln (now called Shahr-i-Bilqis) and about
11 miles from Mianabad, the present principal village of the district, on
the road to Sankhas. ,
It contains about 30 families. To the east of the village, close to an
Imdjnzddeh, stands a mud fort, which is said to mark the site of a former
city built by Faridun of the Pishdadian dynasty.
The village of Fariman is doubtless a corruption of Faridun, and the
village next to it is called Iraj after Faridun’s son. Water good.— {C. E.
Yate.)
FARlMAN (No. 3)—
A village of 70 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, five miles
south-east of Jaghatai.— [Schindler.)
FARISHIAN—
The westernmost village in the Jaghatai-Juvain plain on the borders
of the Jajarm district, Khorasan.
FAR1ZABAD—
A village in the district of Kain, Khorasan.—(-Mew.)
FARKHAN—
A village in the Kuchan district of Khorasan, about 15 miles from
Kuchan, on the road to Meshed. The population consists of 100 families
of Turks and Kurds who own 350 cattle, 3,000 sheep and goats, 300
camels, and 30 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley is
1,000 kharwdrs—(Schindler ; Oranoffsky, 1894; Smyth, 1906.)
FARMA—
The first halting place, 21 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri.— (Kinneir.)
FARMANABAD—
A village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, 16 miles north-east of
Qarat, and 6 miles south-west of Kariz. It contains about 100 Bakharzi
houses, or some 500 souls in all. Three savdrs of the Russian quarantine
cordon are posted there.— (Sykes, 1905.)
FARRUKHlBAD—
A village in Khorasan, about 8 miles north-east of Shahrud, situated
‘ on the borders of a desert. The village is in a ruinous state, but there
is a, good caravanserai and abundance of water.— (Gibbons.)