Asadabad
ASADABAD
(No. 1) ― Lat. 35° 37’ 10”; Long. 59° 18’ 50”; Elev. 5,800’ ―
(Walker)
A
walled village, also known as Kaleh-i-Shahzadeh, situated in the Julgah-i-Rukh
valley on the road between Turbat-i-Haidari and Meshed, 28 miles from the
former and 55 miles from the latter place. The village was built about 1863 by
Prince Asadullah Mirza as a check to Turkoman raiders. The peculiar entrance
gate of the village is no longer used, and the large mill-stone, which formed
the door to close it against Turkoman raiders, lies unheeded, a wooden gate
having now taken its place.
The
village consists of 30 houses inside the walls, and contains some 120
inhabitants (Qarais) who possess 30 cattle and 600 sheep and goats. The annual
production of wheat and barley in ordinary years (
wheat, barley) amounts to
about 540 Indian maunds. Good and plentiful water-supply from a kariz and water-channel. A large caravanserai was completed in 1904; it
is the best caravanserai between
Sistan and Meshed. The Meshed-Sistan telegraph line passes close by the
village. ― (Yate; Maula Bakhsh, 1898;
Wanliss, 1903; Watson, 1906.)
wheat, barley) amounts to
about 540 Indian maunds. Good and plentiful water-supply from a kariz and water-channel. A large caravanserai was completed in 1904; it
is the best caravanserai between
Sistan and Meshed. The Meshed-Sistan telegraph line passes close by the
village. ― (Yate; Maula Bakhsh, 1898;
Wanliss, 1903; Watson, 1906.)
Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I, Simla: Government of
Monotype Press, 1910, p. 32.
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