"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد I" [و‎‎٣‎١‎٦] (٨٢٠/٦٥٠)

QALSHtTR—
A village in Khorasan, 18 miles from Meshed, on the road to Sarakhs,
inhabited by 20 families of Timuus.— {Sykes, 1905.)
qambarAbad—
A village in the Gunabad sub-division of the Tabas district of Khorasan,
There is a small water-supply.— {MacGregor.)
QAPLAN KAIEH—
A pass leading from the Akhal country, north-eastern Khorasan, to
Persia. It is practicable for guns. Ak Tajub and Garmab lie at ita
mouth.— {Thomson.)
QAPLAN TAPPER—
An old mound situated in the Gurgan sub-division of Astarabad, about
4 miles to the west by north of Sangar-i-Haji Lar, in the plain on the edge
of the oak forest.
The place forms the favourite camping-ground of the Kan Yukhmaz
Chdrvd Yamuts, who aie generally camped near this mound during the
winter.—(C. E. Yate.)
QARAl (No. 1) (Tribe)—
A Turkish tribe of Khorasan, inhabiting the districts ofTurshlzand Tur-
bat-i-Haidari, where they are said to have been brought by Timur. The
chiefs of Qarai, however, appear to have lost their former pretensions to
independence, and it may be assumed that, in common with the rural
population of the interior districts, the Qarai would if no specially un
favourable influences were at work, be available for defence in the event
of invasion. The Qarai are still accounted a warlike race ; and the regi
ments recruited from them, one of which is supplied by Turbat-i-Haidari
and the other by Turshiz, bear a high reputation.
According to enquiries made at different times from well-informed old
people in Khorasan, the Qarai are Turks. They probably come from
the same stock as the Ga ili (q.v.), a large number of whose families,
are said to have been moved by one of the Mongol kings from Turk-
istan to Syria, whence they were brought to Ears by Amir Timur and
eventually from Ears to Khorasan by Shah TsmaTl Safa v i. They remain
ed in the Merv and Herat districts for some time, but afterwards settled
in the Turbat-i-Haidari district, which was in an almost indep ndent state
in the early part of the nineteenth cent iry. They were a very powerful
tribe then, but gradually their numbers decreased.
Their decline was the result of rebellion, continuil persecution by the
Turkomans, and fanrine. J
Is-haq Khan, the well-known Qarai chief, gained great power and wa»
in open rebellion during the reign of Fath ’Ali Shah Kajar, but he was
killed with his son, Hasan ’Ali Khan, at Meshed by Prince Muhammad
Vali Mirza in the year 1815. His second son, Muhammad Qhan Qarai
then rebelled, but was coerced by Hasan ’Ali Mirza, the Shuja’-us-Sultaneh
in 1819, He brake out into, rebellion again and took possession of the town