Afshar-Baba
Ashar-Baba
was one of the disciples of our great ancestor the Turk of Turks, Khoja Ahmed
Yessui; as the rites of Yessui are like in Persia the convent at this place is
inhabited by more than a hundred Dervishes. It is a general pilgrimage, the
inhabitants profess to be of the sect Hanefi. We here took some companions and
advanced to the north to the kent Ferrakhzad on the frontier of Shamakhi, and
on the bank of the white river (Aksu) with five hundred houses, a mosque, a
khan, a bath and a small market. The mihmandar of this place paid me many
attentions. We advanced to the north amongst shady groves, dined at a hunting
place of Shah Khoda-bende, and arrived at Nilchai, the same as blue river
(Goksu), which coming from Daghistan joins the Kur at this place.
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in
the Seventeenth Century by Evliya Efendi, Vol. II (1850)
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