"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [و‎‎٣‎٩] (٧٢٢/٨٢)

BANDAR, GEZ— Lat. } Dong. • Dlev. '
A villas'c, 32 miles from Ast.arabad. It is the principal port on the south
east coast of the Caspian. It consists of eight or nine houses built out of
packing cases, and a very dangerous and wretchedly constructed pier, which
runs out into water deep enough for a ship’s boat to come alongside. There
is a caravanserai. Gez is in the Anazan buluk.— [Napier, MacGregor.)
BANDAR RAMAL KHAN-^-Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Sistan, inhabited by people of the Sanjurani tribe, formerly
the property of Imam Khan (deceased), who made it over to Sharif Khan.—
[Napier.)
BAND-I-DUK FI TAR*—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A dam in Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khurasan, which stretches across the Kalat
river near the village of Nafta.— [MacGregor.)
BAND-I-FARlDTJN—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A dam in Khurasan, 3 miles from the village of Earfdun [q.v.),
and 38 miles south of Mashhad. Here a beautiful stream comes meandering
among swampy and reedy meadows down to a pass between rocks 1,000
feet high. Nature had provided a leap for the water of some 50 feet, and
here a former king built a stone embankment across. It is built of solid
masonry of stone and burnt brick, united by cement, which has become
like iron, and is 100 paces long and 10 broad. Against this causeway the
stream rose to a certain height, and then found a passage down several
tunnels of masonry, and so flowed out at the bottom of the embankment to
fertilize the fields in the direction of Faridun and other villages. This
important work became dilapidated in the course of ages, but it was repair
ed by the Prince Governor of Khurasan'’s orders.— [Easiwick.)
In 1875 it was partially in a state of ruin.— [MacGregor.)
BAND-I-GULISTAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A dam across the Rud-i-Jaghark, 12 miles from Mashhad. It is situated
in a defile, and is so constructed as to permit the flow of water through a
folding gate at pleasure. In fact, it is a lock.— [Rozario.)
BANI KAEIJJ.
A tribe of Khurasan inhabiting the neighbourhood of Tabbas and Tun.
BANI KUZD.
A tribe of Khurasan inhabiting the neighbourhood of Tabbas and Tun.
BANJAR— Lat. 31° 2'0”, Long. 6I°3MQ"; Elev. 1,580 / [Walker).
A flourishing village of some 400 houses (Rozario says 1,000 houses) in Persian
Sistan, situated about 8 miles east of Nasirabad, and surrounded by a
great extent of cultivation, which is watered by numerous irrigation canals.
It originally belonged to the Kayani tribe, but since about 1820 has been in
the possession of the Sarbandi ; it only contains four or five families of
the original tribe.— [Goldsmid, Euan-Smith, Bellew.)
BANJARE— Lat. 31° 2' 0", Long. 61° 34' 0"; Elev. 1,580' ( Walker).
A flourishing village of some 400 houses in Persian Sistan, situated about
8 miles east of Nasirabad, and surrounded by a great extent of cultivation.
The inhabitants are almost all of the Sarbandi tribe.— [GoUhmid,
Euan-smith, Bellew.)
* The “ Maiden’s Dam/
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