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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUCHA .N, a fertile and populous See also:

district of the See also:province See also:Khorasan in See also:Persia, bounded N. by the See also:Russian Transcaspian territory, W. by Bujnurd, S. by Isfarain, and extending in the E. to near Radkan. Its See also:area is about 3000 sq. m. and its See also:population, principally composed of Zafaranlu Kurds, descendants of tribes settled there by Shah Abbas I. in the 17th See also:century, is estimated at roo,000. About 3000 families are nomads and live in tents. The district produces much See also:grain, 25,000 to 30,000 tons yearly, and contains two towns, See also:Kuchan and See also:Shirvan (pop. 6000), and many villages.

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