Seistan: A Memoir on the History, Topography, Ruins, and People of the Country, in Four Parts, Volume 1Superintendent government printing, 1910 - Sistan (Iran and Afghanistan) |
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Page 129
... Trākun channel from some remarkable ruins that exist in the deserted bed of this stream . All the old channels of the Helmand are at a higher level than the present course of the river . The southern delta has been always a separate ...
... Trākun channel from some remarkable ruins that exist in the deserted bed of this stream . All the old channels of the Helmand are at a higher level than the present course of the river . The southern delta has been always a separate ...
Page 130
... Trākun and takes place at a point almost abreast of that place . This rise in the ground is due to the presence upon the surface of the plateau of isolated bocks of a similar formation , and covered with a cap of gravel which form ...
... Trākun and takes place at a point almost abreast of that place . This rise in the ground is due to the presence upon the surface of the plateau of isolated bocks of a similar formation , and covered with a cap of gravel which form ...
Page 132
... Trākun channel once they leave the low undulating talus with its covering of fine dark coloured gravel and enter the region of deep fissures and wind scours . The western face of the lower plateau between the Trakun channel and the ...
... Trākun channel once they leave the low undulating talus with its covering of fine dark coloured gravel and enter the region of deep fissures and wind scours . The western face of the lower plateau between the Trakun channel and the ...
Page 160
... Trākun Ramrod and Hauzdār , were at that time cultivated and populated . The Rud - i - Biyaban discharged Hauzd r tract was cultivated . This was in all probability the site of the capital founded after the destruction of Zāhidān ...
... Trākun Ramrod and Hauzdār , were at that time cultivated and populated . The Rud - i - Biyaban discharged Hauzd r tract was cultivated . This was in all probability the site of the capital founded after the destruction of Zāhidān ...
Page 161
... Trākun westwards . These figures are of course not to be time of Malik taken as being absolutely correct , but at any rate in the absence of all other information they are too valuable to be neglected . thern delta in the Hamza . change ...
... Trākun westwards . These figures are of course not to be time of Malik taken as being absolutely correct , but at any rate in the absence of all other information they are too valuable to be neglected . thern delta in the Hamza . change ...
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alluvial soil Amir ancient Arabs baked bricks Balkh banks basin buildings built called canal capital century Chakansur channel Chief Chigini Chingiz Khan citadel clay cliffs course cultivation dasht débris descendants desert district dynasty east exist Farah Rud farsakhs Fath Ali Khan feet floods formed fortress gate Gheiath-ud-din ground Hamun Helmand Herat Husen Ilkhan inhabitants irrigated Istakhri Jallal-ud-din Juwein Kaiani Kala-i-Fath Kandahar karez Khalaf Khariji Khash Khurassan Kirman Kundarak lands latter Malik Hamza Malik Kutb-ud-din Malik Mahmud Malik Shah Malik Shams-ud-din miles minaret Mirza Moghols mound Muhammad Nad Ali Nadir Nial Tigin Nikudaris Nishapur northern delta Oxus palace period Persian plateau present Prince of Seistan probably remains river Rud-i-Biyaban ruins ruler Rustam Sabzawar sand Sar-o-Tar Seistan Shah Shahristan Shela southern Sultan Tahir Taj-ud-din tamarisk Timur took tower town traces tract Trakun tribes troops walls weir Zahidān Zaranj Zarkan Ziarat