Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Alas, Boghayri Turks village in Khorasan (Gazetteer of Persia, 1910)


Alas, Boghayri Turks village in Khorasan




’AlᾹS―
A small village containing about eight families of Bughiri Turks, seven miles north-west of Safiabad in the Bam-Safiabad sub-division of Meshed in Khorasan. Supplies scarce.―(C.E. Yate.) The little isolated hamlet of ’Alas is about 13 miles from Biqrabad and about 12 miles from Dehaneh-i-Shirin. The mountain to the east of ’Alas is called Kuh-i-Yaramjeh.―(H.M.Temple.)


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

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