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ROBAT-I-KARABIL—
See Karabll.
ROBlT-T-KHAKISTAR—
An old caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and a small village situated at about 5 miles from
tbe caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of Turuq, and 11 miles from the town of Meshed, on the
lower road to Sharifabad. Water good. Supplies scarce.—(IfcZa Balchsh.)
ROBAT-I-KHAN— Elev. 3,140'.
A small village in Khorasan and a stage on the road from Yazd t°
Meshed. There is a good caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). here, with a fine bddgir, or wind
tower ; also the remains of an old caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . There are also a fort, a few
houses, a small patch of cultivation, and one or two very small date-palms.
The water is brackish ; but there is fresh water in a covered reservoir at
a distance of about a mile ; this is, however, infested with leeches. There
are supplies of straw, grain and fowls ; but no milk, eggs, sheep, or goats.
Robat-i-Khan is the first village in Khorasan, 38 miles from Pusht-i-Badam
in Yazd ; it is under the Governor of Tabas. He has placed a sort of petty
governor here, who has an escort of half-a-dozen soavd. (Stewart \ G ill .)
ROBAT-I-MAHl— Elev. 2,358'—(MacXean).
Robat-i-Mahi lies near a ford on the right bank of the Kashaf Rud
about 8 miles from Bagh Baghu, about 20 miles from Akdarband, and
about 5 miles from Kichidar. The two roads going irom Meshed, viz.,
one along the left bank of the Kashaf Rud after crossing the river by
a bridge at Quzqan, and the other along the right bank of that river, join
at Robat-i-Mahi. From Robat-i-Mahi one road goes to Muzdaran and
the other to Akdarband. Robat-i-Mahi is deserted at present and
there is no village or habitation near it .—(MacLean ) Maula Balchsh.)
ROBAT-I-MARGHZAR.
See Robat-i-Tajir.
ROBAT-I-MIAN—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). m Khorasan, 49 mihs from Meshed, on the road thence
to Turbat-i-Haidari via Shaiifabad.—(-Bozano.)
ROBAT-I-NAU GUMBAD—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in the Shahrud district, 14 miles west of the upper Pul-i-
Abrisham over the Kaleh-i-Mura. There is no water here, the reservoir
being allowed to fall into ruins.— (Stewart.)
ROBAT-I-NUR KHAN—
A stage in Khorasan, 21J miles from Nishapur, on the road to Turshiz.
— (MacGregor.)
R0BAT-I-PA-1-GUDAR—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). at the foot of the Darrud pass (on the Jagharq side), on
the road from Meshed to Nishapur via Jagharq, situated at about 9 miles
from Jagharq.