The Mervi Turks of Herat
Mauri
A
people often met with in the Herat province and Eastern Khorasan. Stewart says
they call themselves Kajar, but by others they are believed to be Kurds. They
were originally driven from Merv (Maur), when that place was taken by Amir
Masum (Begi Jan), Khan of Bokhara, in 1784-85.
About
12,000 families were then carried off to Bokhara, and the remnant took refuge
in Herat territory. There are 300 families of them at Mamizak, and about 500 at
Shaikhivan. There were once 2,000 families in this part of the Hari Rud valley,
but half of them have removed to Persia and elsewhere. (Maitland.)
Mamizak
34–24
61–45 m. A village in the Ghorian district, 22 miles west of Herat, with a
population of 300 Mauris.
Shakiban or Shaikhiwan
34–23
61–47 m. A fort and a village of 250 houses and 1,200 inhabitants on the right
bank of the Hari Rud, about 29 miles below Herat, and northeast of Zindajan.
The livestock consists of 200 cattle, 900 sheep and goats, and 30 camels.
Annual produce about 27,000 maunds.
There
are three watermills. The trees in the neighbourhood are mostly mulberries.
(Wanliss, 1903.)
Ludwig W. Adamec — Historical and political gazetteer
of Afghanistan. Volume [03] (1975)
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