‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [‎104r] (212/722)

HASANABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. 4,480 / .
A village in Khurasan, miles from Birjand, on the road to Farah in
Afghanistan. There is a karez of briny water here, but very few supplies.
The village contains about 200 huts and a neat little square-bastioned fort,
with some cultivation, but no trees or gardens.
The plain of Hasanabad [vide Dumb) is a wide pasture tract of light gravelly
soil running north and south, with a bright green carpet of short grass, on
which large flocks of goats and sheep graze. Standing on the open plain, a
couple of miles to the north-east is the old fort of Hasanabad. It is in good
preservation, but ha,s been abandoned owing to the drying up of its water-
supply.— (Bellew, MacGregor.)
HASANABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in Khurasan, 241 miles from Birjand, on the road to Herat.—
{MacGregor.)
HASANABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A fort in Khurasan, standing boldly out in the plains to the right of the
road from Bajistan to Turbat-i-Haidari, 4 miles south-west of Abdullahabad.
It is in the Zawah buluk of the Tiirbat-i-Haldari district.— [Be/lew.)
HASANABAD— Lat. ' , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Shahrud district.— {Bellew.)
HASAN KULI — Lat. , Long. ; Elev. h
A bay situated on the south-east shore of the Caspain Sea, between the hills
called by the Russians the Belei Bugor and Serebrannei Bngor,* the White
and Silver Hills, being 24^ miles from the former and 14 miles from the
latter, 33 miles from the south-east angle of Astarabad Bay and 23| miles
from the Ashurada light-ship. The entrance to the bay is formed by two
sandspits, of which the northern is called chagil and the southern kaj.
Both of them are low and sandy ; the first is quite destitute of any vegeta
tion, whilst the latter is covered with reeds. The width of this channel is
miles and the depth 4 feet, except at the bar at the entrance, where it is
only 2 feet deep. The bay itself is shallow, the greatest depth not ex
ceeding 4 feet; and this is only met with in the western side near the extreme
end of the northern sandspit. The latitude of this point is 37° 25' 45 ,/ , and
the longitude 53° 29' Mo", and the compass deviation 2° 16' 0"E.
The bay of Hasan Kuli has a very irregular formation ; its greatest length,
including the Atrak estuary, is from north-north-west to south-south-east
about 2 f miles, and its greatest width from west-south-west to east-north
east about 12 miles. On the northern shore of the bay is the hill called
Haji Isha, and 11 miles to the south-east of this has another similar hill
called Sengri. Both these hills ale remarkable for having wells of sweet
water in their vicinity.
The river Atrak falls into the south-east corner of the bay by several
branches, all quite shallow at the mouth. The water of the river at this point,
as well as the water in the whole of the bay, is brackish, except in spring or
during the north-east storms, when the water of the bay and the river
becomes sweet. The bay of Hasan Kuh abounds with fish, and the nomad
tribes at the mouth of the Atrak, the Yamut Turkmans, derive a considerable
profit from the fishing trade. Many of them employ themselves also in the
manufacture of carpets and the cultivation of millet, musk, and water
* The latter of those is called Gumesh Tapa in Turk!.
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