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of S’ham'khal. Tlie latter is about 4 miles from Russian Bajglran and about
a mile only from the village of Shamkhal. The mihman khdneh is a huge
caravanserai built by order of the Shah as a frontier post, but left unfinished
and ungarrisoned. It contains good rooms for travellers. The Persian
custom-house is located in it. The village beyond the mihmdn ichaneh near
the frontier consists of a few huts in a hollow in the hills, on either side
of the road, and a row of small shops and rooms for travellers. In Persian
Bajgiran there is no garrison, and no official of any sort. The passport
officer is simply the servant of the man who farms the right of selling
passports, and the customs officer the same, but nobody seems to disturb
the peace. The height of the village, according to Colonel Yate’s aneroid,
is about 5,500 feet.^—lC. E. Yute, 1894.)
BAJISTAN—
Bee Bijistan.
BAJUAR—
A village in Khorasan on the road from Tabas to Nishapur. It is 16|
miles north of Badrashkand. It affords plenty of supplies and good
water .—(MacGregor ; Gill.)
BAKHARZ (No, 1)—
A district in North-Eastern Khorasan, comprising the tract lying between
the Jam, Khaf, and Turbat-i-Haidari districts.
The district is divided into three divisions, or buluks, viz., Bala Vilaiat
Mian Vilaiat and Pain Vilaiat. The population is estimated at 20,000
souls, the majority of which in the Bala and Mian Vilaiats are Persians,
known as Bakharzis; in the Pain Vilaiat the majority of the inhabitants
are Tajiks froiti near Herat: these last are Sunnis and undistinguishable
from Afghans in appearance. In this estimate are included 200 families
of Timuris (nomad), 100 families of Bahluxis of Kain, 100 families
of Baluchis, and 1,500 families of HaZaras.
The Shaukat-ud-Dauleh, chief of the Timuris, and the Shuja’-ul-Mulk,
Chief of the Hazaras, are the chief men of the district. The former was
Governor, but the latter has now succeeded him.
The following is a list of the principal villages of the district:—
(a)—B ala Vilatat.
r Mirza Ibrahim Khan Sarhang.
Headmen — 2 Aqa Muhammad Sultan.
Allah Yar Khan Sartip.
Villages.
(1) Shahr-i-Nau,
(2) Arzaneh.
(3) Kurdian.
(4) Arghi.
(5) Jizabad.
(6) Kafsh.
(7) Robat.
(8) Dashtab.
(9) Abnai.
(10) Kaleh Nau.
(11) Saida bad.
(12) Sultanabad.
(13) Turnabad.
(14) Naubahar.
(15) Kaleh-i-Nau-i-Shamlu.
(16) Himmatabad.
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