"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [و‎‎٧‎٨] (٧٢٢/١٦٠)

remain on the plateau, it was well and solidly built. From the gateway,
which has recently been erected in apparently purposeless imitation of
Nadir's gates which have been washed away by successive floods, the road
leads under the walls of a small round fort, showing a couple of guns through
the village of Arghanshah, and down a green fertile valley, with a good
stretch of rice cultivation to the village of Giuk Gumbaz or Ja-i-Gumbaz,
in which is the residence of the Khan of Kalat.— (Napier, MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-CHtfBASI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the entrances to the fortress of Kalat-i-Nadiri in Khurasan. There
is a guard of 1U0 infantry stationed here as a precaution against surprise
by Turkmans.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-DIHCHAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khurasan, forming one of the principal entrances
to this natural fortress on the north. There is a small fort here defended
by 100 Persian infantry as a precaution against surprise by Turk
mans.— (Napier, MacGregor.)
DALtBAND-I-FIRtlZA— Lat. , Long . ; Elev.
A pass in Northern Khurasan, between the Salik (or Firuza) and Ala-Dagh
mountains, miles west of Bujnurd, on the road to Jah Jarm. It is a
wide and open pass with a good road. The greatest ascent is 150 feet.—■
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-HISAR*— Lit. , Long. ; Elev.
A narrow pass in Kurdish Khurasan, about 22 miles east of Shfrwan, on the
road to Daraghaz by Imamguli; on both sides of the pass are precipitous-
heights; those on the north being called the Dagh-i-Shah.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-JtJR— Lat. , Long ; Elev. ^ ' .
A pass in Khurasan, about 65 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadi'ri. 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-KARDIH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, 20 miles from Mashhad, 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.)
DARBAND-I-KHAKISTARf— Lat. , Long. ; Exev. ' .
A pass in Khurasan on the road from Kalat to Daraghaz, and 6 or 7 miles
west of the village of Igdalik. The road having entered this defile, continues
up it for nearly an hour, over huge boulders, passing by positions of great
strength, particularly at a part 30 feet wide, where a wall, 15 feet high, has
been erected across, and where towers on both sides command the entrance.
Beyond the wall there is a succession of four or five little glens filled with
trees, and connected with each other by narrow fables—(MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KHOJA— Lat. , Long. _ ; Elev.
A pass in Northern Khurasan, 11 miles from Kalat-i-Nadiri, on the road to
Sarakhs.— (MacGregor.)
* The “ Pass of the Fort.”
f The “ Pass of Ashes.”