Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Al, Turkish village in Khorasan (Gazetteer of Persia, 1910)


Al, Turkish village in Khorasan




ᾹL―Lat. 36° 41ʹ 40ʺ; Long. 59° 42ʹ 20ʺ.―(Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri, and 32 miles north of the former town. It is situated in a small opening in the hills about 1 mile long by 400 yards broad, its houses, cultivation, and gardens occupying the whole of the level ground at the foot of the cliffs.
The population consists of 50 families of Turks, who possess 200 cattle, 2,000 sheep and goats, and 8 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley is 300 kharwars.―(Yate; Oranofsky, 1894; Smyth, 1906.)


Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype Press, 1910, p. 17.

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