"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎٣‎٦] (٧٢٢/٧٧)

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BAGH-I-SlAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. /
A village in the Giinabad subdivision of the Tabbas district in Khurasan —
{Be Hew.)
BAGHISTAN —Lat. , Long. j Elev. '
A village m the Gasht-i-Rukh subdivision of the district Turbat-i-Haidari In
Khurasan.-— [Belleio.) m
BAG HE AN- — Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '
A range of hills south-east of Birjand. The hills are bare and slaty * and
of various colours (black, green, red, grey), and the surface appears'to be
much disintegrated. The base of the hills is studded from east to west by
a close succession of hamlets, forts, villages, and gardens, the ground beino-
very fertile.— [Bedew.) ' °
BAGHldN— Lat. ^ , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan in the subdivision Khaf of the district Ghain —
(Be Hew.)
2 5,°/ Loxo ' 5S ° n ' 20 "; 4,300' (W„lhr.)
le cine: town of the hnhik or division of the same name belonffini? to
the district ot Tabbas in the province of Khurasan. It contains about 2 000
houses surrounded by gardens, and has a population of some 4 000 souls
(Rozano says only 2,000), consisting of Sayads, merchants, mullas, and the
commons. It has also a ruined fort, 2 good caravanserais, 4 “ hammams
50 mosques, and 70 shops. It is famous for the manufacture of a very
costly species of cloth made of goat's wool, and called “ barak," and of a
cheap silk material called “ Chadar-i-Shahi It is also celebrated for its
excellent water-melons and abundant fruit Three Icanats supply it with
water Its situation is at the base of a bare hill running east and west for
d or 4 miles.
There are still to be seen the remains of an ancient hanat, of which the
tradition is that it was built in the time of the Safasian kings, and that
whoever drank ot its waters became mad. Another ancient tradition, common
among the natives, is that the whole of the country around Bagistan was
once crossed by the sea, and that the place derives its name from a toll
and to take, alluding to the toll at the ferry paid by travellers for
boat hire when the water had partly receded.
It is the tmrd stage (80 miles) from Tun on the road to Mashhad.—(GW
smut, bedew, Stewart, MacGregor, Rozario.)
BAG IS TAN, ok B 1.1 i STAN—Lat. , Long. • Elev. '.
One of the fi ve buiuks of the Tabbas district. It contains the following
vn ages : ■ ijijdan, Kalata Mirza, Darais, Warzu, Darchah Darkas, Purkak,
Ruiy.ang, Sardeh, Fakhrabad, Yunsi, Marandaz, Rud-i-Gaz, and others.
^ ajis an is m a \a ey , the mountains surrounding it consist of mounds of
basalt granite, metamorphic rock, green rock, slates, and yellow and red
Giift stones of every description and saline deposits are found in the
watercourse; good-sized bena trees, together with smaller plants of rhu-
aiD, a sm , ro n m tulips, and lilies, are seen about the hills. Barley,
wheat, opium, and silk are produced in fair quantity. The district suffered
Cal # ^ tom e famine of 1872 by death and emigration. The villages
^7 ^ 16 Ul0to vve ^ watered, and their fields fertile.— [Rosario,
Bedew.) K 3