Asadabad, Qarai Turks village in Turbat-i Heydari
ASADABAD (No. 1)―Lat. 35° 37ʹ 10ʺ; Long. 59° 18ʹ 50ʺ; Elev. 5,800ʹ.―(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 India Monotype
Press, 1910, p. 32.
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