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TURBET I HAIDARI

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURBET I HAIDARI , a See also:

district of the See also:province of See also:Khorasan in See also:Persia, bounded N. by See also:Meshed, E. by Bakharz, S. by Khaf and W. by See also:Turshiz. It has a See also:population of about 30,000, composed chiefly of members of the See also:Turki Karai tribe and Beluchis. The Karais were settled here by Timur in the 14th See also:century and now provide a See also:battalion of See also:infantry and 150 cavalrymen to the See also:army. The district contains about 150 villages and hamlets, most of them situated in its more fertile eastern See also:part, and pays a yearly See also:revenue of £14,000. Much See also:silk was formerly produced, now very little, but there are large crops of See also:grain.

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