Aghdash, Yengiji Turks village in Khorasan
ᾹQDASH―
A village situated on the south front of the
Kalat-i-Nadiri plateau in North-Eastern Khorasan. It contains 80 families of
Yangiji Turks, who own 150 cattle and 400 sheep and goats. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley amounts to 4,000 and 1,600 Indian maunds
respectively.―(Oranofsky, 1894; Sykes, 1906.)
Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype
Press, 1910, p. 26.
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