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DARBAND-I-FIRUZEH—
A pass in Northern Khorasan, between the Saluq (or Firuzeh) and Aleh
Dagh mountains, 8| miles west of Bujnurd, on the road to Jajarm; it is
a wide and open pass with a good road. The greatest ascent is 150 feet.—
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-HISAR—
A narrow pass in Kurdish Khorasan, about 22 miles east of Shlrvan,
on the road to Darreh Gaz by Imam Quli; on both sides of the pass are pre
cipitous heights ; those on the north being called the Dagh-i-Shah.—
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-JUR—
A pass in Khorasan, about 65 miles from Meshed, on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadiri. It is composed of a succession of very narrow defiles,
divided by small open spaces, and flanked by column-like walls of rock.—
(MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KHAKISTAR—
A pass in Khorasan on the road from Kalat to Darreh Gaz, and 6 or 7 miles
west of the village of Igdaliq. The road, having entered this defile, con
tinues up it for nearly an hour, over huge boulders, passing by positions
of gre it strengh, particularly at a part 30 feet wide, where a wall, 15
feet high, has been erected across, and where towers on both sides com
mand the entrance. Beyond the wall there is a succession of 4 or 5
little glens filled with trees, and connected with each other by narrow
defiles.— (MacGregor.)
D ARBAND-I-KHW A JA—
A pass in Northern Khorasan, 11 miles from Kalat-i-Nadiri, on the
road to Sarakhs.— (MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KUSHTANI—
A pass in Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khorasan, forming the principal entrance to
this natural fortress on the north-east. The fort here is defended by
Persian Infantry.— (Napier ; MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-NAFTA—
A pass or narrow gap in the north wall of the natural fortress of Kalafc-
i-Nadiri, about 7 miles from Guk Gumbnd, the chief village in Kalat. It
is the outlet of the Kalat stream from the plateau, and a road leads from
it to Dushakh.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-QARDEH—
A pass in Khorasan, 20 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri. It is a narrow gorge shut in by a high mountain formed of
immense, tabular masses of metamorphic rock, which form a high outer
barrier of inaccessible crags, rising to a height of 1,000 to 1,500 feet above
the hill skirts.— (Napier.)
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