"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎٢‎١] (٧٢٢/٤٧)

u
Besides the much carefully-fostered bazar, there is a project for a new road
across the Abbas pass, and a railway brought in from the Kizil-Arvat to
Askabad.
The chief inhabitants of Askabad are Akhal Turkmans. These at the
present time are reduced to a state of such extreme poverty, that it is all they
can do to keep body and soul together, and their appeals for assistance
in distress are not worth much consideration. No taxes have yet been impos
ed ; and, save that their favourite pastime of plundering has been prohibited,
they are allowed to do much what they like. Nevertheless, since Gok-Tapa
the male portion of the population have a sullen and injured appearance as
if smarting under the sense of undeserved defeat. Seen wandering about
listlessly, they have all the look of caged eagles.— (See Akkdl.)
ASK ARAB AD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of a group of hamlets in Khurasan, 26 miles east of Magas. No
supplies; water scanty.— {Stewart.)
ASKARIA—Lat. . • , Long.^ ^ ^ ; Elev.
A small fortified village in Khurasan, 3 miles from Mashhad having a
reservoir of indifferent water.— {Taylor, Clerk, Hardy.)
ASPAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 28 miles from Tabbas, on the road to Birjand. It
has good water and some supplies.— {MacGregor.)
ASP-I-AGHA—Lat. 37° TP 0", Long. 57° 4' 0"; Elev. ' (lutellz-
gencc Department, War Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan on the Garma Khan river.— {Intelligence
Department, War Office.)
ASPWA NlZA*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
The nam* of a pass and of a camping ground in the province of Astarabad,
on the main road from Shahrud to the town of Astarabad. The camping
ground is open and suitable for a large camp, with a stream and a little culti
vation. The nearest village is Hajiabad, 2 miles to the north.— {Napier.)
ASTAISU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A little river in Shahrud-Bustan on which Astarabad is situated. The
river runs into the Kasaru.— {MacGregor.)
ASTANA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Shahrud-Bustan, about 195 miles from Tehran, near Chash-
mah-i-Ali, on the road from Tehran to Shahrud by Ffruz-Kuh. It possesses
gardens and supplies, and is situated to south of road in a barren rocky glen.
— [Napier.)
A STAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The river in the Astarabad district, on which the town of Astarabad is
situated, and to which it gives its name. It is a considerable river, and is
navigable for a short distance from its mouth in the Caspian.— [Kinneir.)
ASTARABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A province of Persia between lat. 36° 45' 0" and 37° 20 / 0 ,/ and long. 54° and
56°. It is bounded on the north by the Gurgan river, south by the Alburz
mountain and Shahrud district, west by the Caspian and Mazandaran, from
which it is divided by the Gulugah stream, and east by the district of Jah
Jarmand the plateau of Armut Ali. The Turkman tribes north of the Gur
gan own a nominal allegiance to the Shah and to the Governor of Astarabad.
# The “ Horse and Spear.”