Arghun Shah
ARGHAVAN SHAH―
A small village in the valley of Kalat-i-Nadiri,
Khorasan. A gate of Kalat-i-Nadiri is also called the Arghavan Shah Gate or
Darband-i-Arghavan Shah (Arghavan Shah defile). The Kalat stream enters Kalat
through the Arghavan Shah opening to the district.
The village has a population of about 200 Kurdish and
Turkish families, who own 300 cattle and 2,000 sheep and goats. The annual
production of wheat and barley in normal years is 3,150 and 2,700 Indian
maunds, respectively. Very good rice is grown here.―(MacGregor; Oranofsky,
1894; Smyth, 1906.)
Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype
Press, 1910, p. 29.
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