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ARJlN—
See Zubaran.
ZO-I-PlRZAN—
See ZQ PIr/an.
ZC-I-RADKAN—
A defile in the hills at the back of Radkan, through which flows a
stream which joins the Kashaf Rud in the marsh.^— (C. E. Yate, 1897.)
ZULFIKAR—
An Afghan frontier post on the eastern Khorasan border, on the right bank
of the Hari Rud and about 13 miles south-east of Zurabad. It is a squalid
village of about 250 houses, situated at the foot of the remarkable cliffs of
Dehaneh-i-Zulfikar or the Zulfikar pass, concerning which the legend runs
that ’All cleft it with his forked sword. On the northern cliff of the pass
are two white pillars, defining the spot where the Afghan Boundary Com
missioner commenced the erection of pillars.
The post is held by a Sadbdshl and about 100 Jchasaddrs, who together
with their families comprise the population of the village.— (Sykes, 1905.)
ZULPFAN—
A village in Darreh Gaz, Khorasan, on the road to Kuchan by the
Davand Pass, and 12 miles north-west of Muhammadabad. It contains
about 30 families of Kurds, who own 200 cattle. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley amounts to 2,400 and 800 Indian maunds,
respectively.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
ZtJNG—
A village containing about 30 families, in the Martish valley in the
Nishapur district in Khorasan.— (H. M. Tetn'ple.)
ZUNKHAN—
A village in the Radkan district of north-eastern Khorasan, situated
about 15 miles east of Kuchan. It consists of 30 families of Kurds, and the
normal annual production • of wheat and barley amounts to 4,800 Indian
maunds.—1894.)
ZG PlRZAN (The old woman’s defile)—
A defile in Khora c an, 40 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri, through the Kara Dagh range of hills. It is about a mile-and-a-half
in length and very difficult, the first 150 yards at the southern end being
especially so. The roadway here narrows down to five feet in one place,
and to six, eight and ten in several others. On either side rises a succession
of walls, which are ranged one behind the other in a sort of column Echelon,
dovetailing into each other. The defile is quite impregnable to a front
attack, and there is sure to be no other path, either through the hills or
over them.— (MacGregor.)
ZGRABAD (No. 1)—
A village, 4 miles north-west of Sultan Maidan, on the Sultan Maidan
river, between the ’Ashuq Kuh and Markuh in the Sar-i-Vilalat district of
Khorasan.— (Schindler.\ , ... v .