Friday, February 8, 2019

Balghur (Gazetteer of Persia, 1910)


Balghur




BALGHŪR―Lat. 36° 48ʹ 0ʺ; Long. 59° 39ʹ 0ʺ (Napier); Elev. 6,000ʹ.―(C. E. Yate.)
One of the principal villages in the small sub-division of Chul-i-Khaneh in Khorasan, south of the Kara Dagh mountains, 11 miles from Aul and 35 miles north of Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri. It contains about 150 families of Turks who possess 500 cattle, 3,000 sheep and 40 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley is 400 kharwars.―(C. E. Yate; Oranofsky, 1894; Smyth, 1906.)


Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype Press, 1910, p. 69.

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