"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٥] (٧٢٢/٧١٦)

ZARG^W. ^ ^ ^ Long. ; Eley.
f V1 1X1 , ^'"'asan, lying 1 in a valley, surrounded by bills, on the road
Lorn Sabzawar to the turquoise mines at Mddan.— {Khdnikoif.)
ZARlNKTJH— La.t. , Long. ; Elev. 6,000'
A range of hills stretching across the north of the Daraghaz valley of Khu-
i r T Mui . iarama ^ aba(i the bearings show it as stretching from 30°
to 43 , the fort being only 3 miles distant ; whereas, west of Askhabad
the mam spurs of the Ivnran Dagh are thrown out to the south-east of
it, they are thrown out to the north. The first of these is a rid^e, which
inns para lie j. with the mam range, and, bounding the Durangar valley on
tie north, is known at its end, if not throughout its whole length, as the
7?r U Vr uh * ; T ie P rnicl P al peak lies north-north-west of the chief villao» e —
[MacGreijor, Napier.) °
ZAR1STAK —Lat. , Long. • Elev.
One of the sis subdivisions of the Shahrud-o-Bustan district. It lies in the
extreme west. The tract has a rough, hilly surface, with a few fertile
strips of plain, fairly watered by kanats. The best of these is the Shahrud
plain, on which stands Shahrud and ten to twelve fine villages, watered
by the Rud-i-Shah,—a small brook, which rises in Shah-Kuh, and exhausts
itself m irrigation canals in the plain. The principal villages are Shahrud-
Rustau, Dili Mulla, Jafirabad, Yunusabad, and Bedasht. A good deal of
silk and cotton is raised, as well as sufficient corn. Cultivation, beino-
dependent on kanats, suffers severely from drought. The villages have
fine, large gardens, producing abundance of fruit, a good deal of "which is
dried for export. The inhabitants are about half Arab and half A jam,
or Persian.— (Napier.)
Z ARTS PAN —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of northern Khurasan, north-east of Shfrwan. The river flowing
through it joins the Atrak. The Khushkhana valley is divided from it by
an offshoot of the Kuran Dagh.— (MacGregor.)
ZARKTJN —Lat. , Long. • Elev. '.
A village of the Dasht-i-Rukh subdivision of the Turbat-i-Haidan district
of Khurasan.— (Bellew.)
ZARWl —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan in the biiluk of Alghur in the district of Kafn.
It is picturesquely situated on a hill, and is surrounded by vineyards and
orchards and small patches of corn cultivation. It contains about 200
houses.— (Bellew.)
ZAU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the three affluents of the Gifana stream, itself a northern affluent
of the Atrak river, rising in the Kopet Dagh range of north-eastern
Khurasan.— (Petrusevitch.)
ZAU PlRZAN*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. A
A defile in Khurasan, 40 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri, through the Kara Dagh range of hills. It is about a mile-and-a-half
in length, and very difficult, the first 150 yards at the southern end being
especially so. The roadway here narrows down to five feet in one place
and to six, eight, and ten in several others. On either side rises a succession
of walls, which are ranged one behind the other in a sort of column in echelon.
* The “ Pass of the Old Woman.