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KlSIMABAD.— Lat. 36° 23' 30", Long. 59° 27' 0"; Eiev. ' {Napier).
A village in Khurasan, 12 miles from Mashhad, on the read to Daraghaz.
Before the famine it contained 35 houses, but in 1874 only 15. Supplies are
plentiful, and before the siege of Mashhad it was a considerable place. The
inhabitants of this place are Tauts, an aboriginal Persian tribe. Their
tongue is an older form of Persian, and they understand modern Persian
with difficulty.— {Napier, Stewart.)
KASIMABAD— -Lat. ; Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, on the road from Khaf to Gunabad, and a little
east of the range called the Khuibar Kuh.— {Khanikoff.)
KASIMABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A stage in Khurasan, 93 miles from Tabas, on the road to Mashhad. It
has water, but no supplies.— {MacGregor.)
K ASK AT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A hamlet in Khurasan, lying south-east of the Gudar-i-Baidar pass, on
the road from Turbatd-Haidan to Mashhad. There is a sarai here and
some 30 huts.— [Bellew.)
KASTJM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, lying to the west of the Gunabad valley, and about
20 miles from Kakh, on the road to Bajistan. It contains about 100
houses, has an abundant water-supply from a hill spring, and is surrounded
with fruit gardens and cornlields.— {Bellew.)
KATIA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan on, or near to, the Shahrud-Mashhad road. It is
situated on the edge of the desert and watered by a fine kandl .— {Napier.)
KATIRCHI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A plateau in Khurasan, about 13 miles from Kuehan, on the road to Dara
ghaz by the Dawand pass. — {Napier.)
KATLlSH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A tributary of the Atrak on the right, *.<?., the north, beyond Slurwan
towards the Caspian. It is formed by the junction of the Gifana and Khush-
khana.—( Petrus ev i tch.)
KxVTMARABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Gunabad buluk of Khurasan.— {Bellew.)
KATllL —-Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the province of Astarabad, in the subdivision of the same
name (^. v.), and 28 miles from the town of Astarabad, on the road to Buj-
nurd by Gurgan. There is water and fuel here, abundance of forage,
and some supplies.— {MacGregor.)
KATtfL—L at. 36.° 55 y 10", Long. 54 c 53' 0" ; Elev. ' {Napier).
A large village in the province of Astarabad, 25 miles east of the town
of Astarabad. It contains some 400 houses, and supplies are procurable. A
post of 50 horse for border defence is at Katul. This village is in the
buluk of the same name, being one of the easternmost of the province.
This buluk extends from the mountain of Astarabad to the open plain held
by the Turkumans. There are some five villages standing in extensive
clearings in the forest. The total number of villages in the buluk is 26, of
which the principal are Katul, Mamtalu, and Darkalah (q. v.). The inhabit
ants are chiefly Geraih Turks, and speak Turkish as well as Persian.