‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [‎112r] (228/722)

In the reign of Fateh AH Shah, Allah Yar Khan of Jagatai held Munnan,
and a considerable tract of country around it. He was defeated by that
sovereign and died at Tehran. Since then the chiefs have been deprived of
these possessions, and the present head of the family is serving in Sistan with
100 Jagatai horsemen.
The government of the district is administered by a nominee of the
Governor General of Khurasan; but it may be deemed by position and con
nection an appanage of the Sabzawar government or district.— [Napier.)
JAG HARK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. 4,650 ' .
A btduk of the Mashhad district of Khurasan, 18 to 20 miles west of
Mashhad. It consists of four or five large villages in the glen of the Nur-
abad range, through which passes the Darud route from Nishapur to Mash
had. The population are chiefly Ajam. They lost half their number in the
famine, and are dependent to a great extent on the sale of fruit.
The village of Jaghark is built on the slope of a high slate hill right
down to the edge of the stream, and is a fine large one, of about 250 inhabited
houses, with extensive orchards, fuel and timber plantations, and terraced
vineyards. The trees felled for timber are chiefly plane and poplar. The
plantations for firewood are thick copses cut down to the stumps after the
wood has attained a girth of five to six inches.
The revenue of the district is cash 1,615 tumans and grain 40 khar-
wars. The estimated population is 3,000. The main stream of the
district is called the Rud-i-J aghark, which runs down into the town of
Mashhad. The entrance into the district on the Mashhad side is called the
Kotal-i-Jaghark* which is alight ascent of 300 feet, consisting chiefly of
magnesian limestone. From its top the last glimpse of the cupola of the
Mashhad shrine (^. v.) is caught; for this reason apparently _ good Mussul
mans had pieces of rags torn from their garments secured in many places
on it as a testimony for the Doomsday of their having paid the required
devotion to the Imam. r lhe natives of Jaghark are nell made and haidy;
the women fair, and the children rosy and beautiful, with daik e^es.
The name Jaghark signifies “ the place of drowning/' from a tradition
that this country was at one time under the sea, and that this was the spot
where Jonah or Tunas was cast into it. He was cast up again fiom the
whale's belly at the spot named Yunasi [q. v.),—[Napier, Beliew, liozario.)
JAHANABAD— Lat. 31° 2' 0", Long. 61° 46' 0" ; Elbiv. ' [St. John).
A frontier fort in Persian Sistan consisting of the usual square mud-walled
enclosure, with unusually high walls, and surrounded by a wet ditch.
There are no houses or cultivation in its vicinity, though it has the appearance
of having once been a flourishing place. There are thirty garrisoning
sarbasis, who appear to guard it zealously, giving admittance to none
without a special order from the km\v.—{Goldamid, Euan-Smth, Rozano.)
JAHAN MtfLK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev L ,
A small well in Khurasan, 8 miles west of Kasimabad, on the road from
Samnan to Khaf vid Gibur. [Stewart.)
JAHAN NtTMA*—L at. 36° 43' O', Long. 54° 18' 30"; Elev 8,900
A peak in the Alburz range, 10 miles south-west of Astarabad. It is the
highest point between the ridge of Shah Kuh, 13,000 feet, and the Nizwar
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