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BlRlN, "or BARUN— Lat. 31° 8' 0", Long. 58° 7' 0" : Elev.
( IFalker ).
A walled village in Khurasan, Persia, 7 miles north of Tun, 135 miles south
of Mshapur, containing 150 houses and Persian inhabitants.— [Kinneir,
MacGregor, Sfeivart.)
BAR KtJK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Alghur buluk of the Kain district, Khurasan.— (Bellew.)
BAR KULAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Astarabad, one march from the south-east corner of the Caspian
(Bandar Gaz) towards Shahrud.— (MacGregor.)
BARKUT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Narjun buluk of the Kain district, Khurasan.— (Belleiv.)
BARKUT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The Turki name for the Siah-Kuh mountains north of the Tursluz
district.— (Stewart.)
BARUBAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, situated under the hills, about 10 miles
from Khaf near the road to Herat.— (Clerk.)
BARUGHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. b
A buluk of Sabzawar district, Khurasan, consisting of a sandy, barren, broken
tract along the skirts cf the Kuhmish range. There are live principal vil
lages with scanty cultivation.— (Napier.)
BARtJMASKAN—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan one stage from Turshiz on the read to Sabzawar.—
(MacGregor.)
BASHRTJYAH—Lat. 33° 52/ 26", Long. 57° 22' 30"; Elev.
(Lentz).
A large village of Khurasan, situated in the middle of a wide plain on the
road from Tun to Tabbas, visited for the first time by an Englishman
(Colonel MacGregor) in 1875. It is described as consisting of some 800
houses, and surrounded by a circle of cultivation for a radius of about 3 miles.
It is enclosed by a wall in the last stage of dissolution, and covers an area of
about 500 yards by 400, the long side facing the north. There are four
gates, one in each face, and in the north-west angle is the “ arg ^ or citadel;
which, though rather imposing at a distance, has no importance whatever as
a fortihed position. The water is good and all supplies are procurable, though
there is no bazar and no merchants. The only manufacture is a woollen cloth
called “barrak, ”a soft warm material made from the hair of goats. Though
the place has much cultivation, it could not probably export much of its
good grain without running the risk of another bad year, such as they had
in 1871; when it is said that over 1,000 inhabitants died.
Bashruyah is the chief place of the bulukof the same name in the district
Tabbas. The buluk consists of the following villages : Ispak, Aliabad, Taraj,
Rukha, Arishk, Murdistan, Deh-i-Nau, Khuramabad, &c. There appeared
to be no armed men of any kind in the place in 1875, though it is said to
have been formerly much exposed to raids from Baluchis.— (MacGregor.)
BASHTAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '•
A buluk in the north of Sabzawar district in Khurasan. A good deal of the
soil is trap, and consequently fertile. Cotton and silk are raised. It has
eleven villages.— (Napier.)