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JlJABAD —La.t. , Long.^ ; Eeev. '
One of a group of six villages in Khurasan, near Ultangi Shah, south-east
of Mashhad, occupied by Sistanis and Marvlis. These villages stand
quite aloof from all other settlements in Khurasan, and the inhabitants
form quite a distinct population, in consequence of which they suffer more
than the rest from the Turkmans.
This is the extreme easterly settlement in Khurasan— {Pelrusevitch.)
JOMAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' t
A village of 200 houses in the Biarjumand luluk of the Shahrud-
Bustan province, 50 miles south-east of Shahrud, on the road to Tursluzl
The inhabitants are of mixed Arab and Ajam race.— {Napier.)
JOREZ— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev. '
A walled village in Tabbas district, Khurasan, Persia, 7 miles south-east of
that town, containing 200 houses inhabited by Persians.— -{Ferrier.)
JORJAN— Lat. , Long. . ; Elev.
A town in the province of Astarabad, Persia, 90 miles east of Astarabad, and
80 miles north-east of Bustan. Probably identical with Jah Jarm.— [Kinneir.)
JtTDANA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. y .
A village in the Shahrud province on the road from Shahrud to Maiomai.
There is good water here.— {Khani/coff.)
JtJFTRtlE— Lat. ^ ^ , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A village in the Nih luluk of the Kain district of Khurasan.— [Bellew.)
JTJ-I-RtJMI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A stream of salt water in Southern Khurasan, 1 £ miles from the village of
Dih-i-Saif, on the road from Karman to Birjand by the desert of Lut—
[Khanikoff.)
JELEN —Lat. , Long, ; Elev. '.
A village and serai in Khurasan, about 8 miles west of Zafaranlu, on the
road to Sabzawar. Near it there are two large ponds fed by a karez,
and a wide extent of cornfields.— {Bellew.)
JUKAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A village of Chinaran, Kurdish Khurasan, 2| miles from Chinaran [q.v.)
on the road to Radkan.— {Napier.) \
JELEA— Lat. , Long. j Elev. ' .
The quarter of Isfahan inhabited by Armenians. This part of the city, which
lies to the south of the Zaindarud, was so called from Julfa on the Araxes
in Armenia, the inhabitants of which were transported by Abbas the Great
in the beginning of the 17th century to the then capital of Persia en masse.
It is said that, like the Musulman portion of Isfahan, Julfa has declined
until it now contains only about a tenth part of the inhabitants of which
it boasted in the days of Shah Abbas. Its population now hardly reaches
as many as 3,000, while even within the last quarter of a century it reckon
ed more than three times that number. The once busy trade carried on by
the colony no longer exists; constant and unvarying oppression has broken
the spirits of the Armenians, so enterprising and eager for gain in other
lands ; and in a few more years, unless some unforeseen circumstances
should occur to arrest the progress of decay, this once prosperous and
thriving suburb of the ancient capital of Persia will become a ruin, and its
gardens so many jungles.