"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد I" [و‎‎٣‎٨‎٥] (٨٢٠/٧٩٤)

stretching along the Russian frontier from Sarani on the east to Gifan on
the west, and thence south down the Bujnurd border. The village now
contains 40 families of Kurds from Firuzeh, to make room for whom the
former residents were turned out and sent elsewhere.—(C. E. Yate, 1894.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 3)—
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri by
Qaratigan. The population consists of 120 families of Kurds, who own
300 cattle and 5,000 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of
wheat and barley amounts to 6,400 and 1,600 Indian maunds, respectively.
There is a good supply of water from the Qaratigan river.— (Oranoffsky,
1894.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 4)—
A small village, situated in the eastern corner of the Bujnurd valley in
Khorasan .—(Maula Bakhsh.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 5) (Stream)—
See Kalat Chal.
YANGl MAHALLEH—
A village in the west of Astarabad, inhabited chiefly by Hazara immigrants
of an ancient date.— (Napier.)
YANI—
See Yam.
YANKAK—
The frontier or most westerly obd (settlement) of Guklan lurkomans,
belonging to Karadish Khan, the head of the \ankak section of the
Gbklans. It lies on the left bank of the Gurgan, about a mile to the east of
a large mound called Yas Tappeh (q-v.).
The difference between the northern and southern banks of the Gurgan
is very marked here at Yankak. The former looks bare, barren and dry,
whereas the latter is of excellent soil covered throughout wuth grass and
low reeds, and requiring nothing but peace and population for its pros-
perity. The numbers of Tappehs about show how thickly populated it
was in ancient times, and the wooded slopes of the hills to the south make
the scene a pretty one.
The tall tower of the Gumbad-i-Kabus (?.t;.) stands out very plainly west-
south-west from Yankak, and the Yamut obd of Igdaris said to be only
1 farsakh distant, but they are going to move elsewhere shortly.
The climate at Yankak at this season of the year (November) is very
^Xhe Yflnkak section of Guklan Turkomans contains about 100 families,
and is sub-divided into the following sub sections :
Kavallii.
Uch Kavallu.
Taghailan.— (C.E. Yate> 1894.)
Yankak.
Sarij a.
Daira Agri.