"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٠] (٧٢٢/٣٨٤)

in the Sabzawar district of Khurasan, on the road to Maidan. There are
excellent crops of wheat and barley here, and an ample supply of water.—
{Napier.)
NIK AH— Lat. 56° 50' 0," Long. 53° 13' 0°; Eley. ' {Napier).
A river in the province of Astarabad, which rises near the Chalchalian pass
near the village of Tash, and after a course of about 100 miles flows into
the southern part of the Caspian Sea.— {Napier.)
NIMAZGAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in the Ataks, north-east of Khurasan, leading to Baghar in
Akhal. The Turkomans used to raid through it formerly.— {Thomson.)
NlMBtJLTJK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A subdivision of the district of Kain in Khurasan. It consists of a wide
valley extending from north-west to .south-east, some _ 35 miles by 12
wide. On its surface to the northward are seen the villages of Siliani,
Mahiam, and Khidri. It is separated from Gunabad by a long curving
range of hills, through which are several passes. The hill range is called
Mafsur, and the passes from south to north are named Dahan*-Gharkab,
Mugri, Rijing, Balaghur, and Dahan-Suliman.
Th e chief villages' are Girimunj, Dihushk, Buzuabad, Akbari, AKabad,
Mardosha, Saiyidabad, Radrin, Buzkab, Karish, Jamin, Behut, Munawaj,
Duduna, Murdabad, Sihkuri, Alipalang, Dasht-i-biaz, Agha Jan, Asadabad,
Naughab, and about thirty others. The range bounding the subdivision on
the north is joined to the Kuh-i-Khaibar. The drainage of the valley goes
to the Dak-i-LKwalan.— {JBelleiv, MacGregor.)
NISAR GARLASI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A villao-e in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khurasan, m which there are
some twenty families of pure Mongols, speaking the Mongol tongue and not
Turki, like the rest.— {Stewart.)
NlSHAPOR—L at. 36° 12' 20", Long. 58° 49', 2V'; Elev. 4,000' {Lentz,
Walker)
A town in Khurasan, 49 miles west of Mashhad, 21:2 miles north-west of
Herat, and 409 miles east of Tihran. _ . , ■. , ...
It is situated in a magnificent plain, 18 miles m length, covered with
villao’es and trees, and intersected by numerous streams and canals.
The town of Nishapur is about 2 miles in circuit, but its walls enclose
many ruins and vacant spaces of ground, upon which buddings once stood.
It contains 3,000 houses ; and its bazars are well filled, and supplies cheap.
The walls of the town and the ditch are in a bad state of repair, as is t re
“Tht handsomest cavavansarai at this place is outside the walls on the
r0 Nfehdp I dv 1 is a tld to have been founded hy Tapamur a prince of the
Pishdadian dynasty, and was formerly one of the nchest and largest cit.es
of Persia and one of the four royal cities of Khurasan. It then boie the
name of Abarshahr, and was taken and destroyed by Alexander the Great
qi u tv'v rpcfnrpd if - and to perpetuate the fact, gave it his name, and
erected an immense statue’ which remained standing until the first invasion
of the country by the Mussul mans, who m their zeal destroyed it.
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