KAIN  , the name of a sub-See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province and of a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• KHORASAN, or KHORASSAN (i.e. " land of the sun ")

Khorasan, See also:

• PERSIA

Persia . The sub-province extends about 300 M . N. to S., from Khaf to See also:

• SEISTAN, or SISTAN (SEJISTAN)

Seistan, and about 150 M . W. to E., from the hills of See also:

• TUN

Tun to the Afghan frontier, comprising the whole of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-western Khorasan . It is very hilly, but contains many wide plains and fertile villages at a mean See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 4000 ft . It has a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of about 150,000, rears See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of camels and produces much See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

• SAFFRON (Arab. za'faran)

saffron, See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool, See also:

• SILK

silk and See also:

• OPIUM (Gr. amov, dim. from Orbs, juice)

opium . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief manufactures are felts and other woollen fabrics, principally carpets, which have a See also:

• WORLD

world-wide reputation . The best Kaini carpets are made at . Darakhsh, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the Zirkuh See also:

• DISTRICT

district and 50 M . N.E. of See also:

• BIRJEND

Birjend . It is divided into eleven administrative divisions: See also:

• SHAHABAD

Shahabad (with the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital Birjend), Naharjan, Alghur, Tabas sunni Khaneh, Zirkuh Shakhan, Kain, Nimbulak, Nehbandan, Khasi, Arab Khaneh or Momenabad . The town of Kain, the capital of the sub-province until 1740, when it was supplanted by Birjend, is situated 65 m .

N. of Birjend on the eastern See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of a broad valley, stretching from N. to S., at the See also:

• BASE

base of the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain Abuzar, in 33° 42' N. and 59° 8' E., and at an elevation of 4500 ft . Its population is barely 5o00 . It is surrounded by a mud See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall and bastions, and near it, on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill rising 5oo ft. above the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, are the ruins of an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle which, together with the old town, was destroyed either by Shah Rukh (1404-1447), a son, or by Baysunkur (d . 1433), a See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), who afterwards built a new town . After a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the Uzbegs took See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession and held the town until Shah Abbas I . (1587-1629) expelled them . In the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell under the sway of the Afghans and remained a dependency of See also:

• HERAT

Herat until 1851 . A large number of windmills are at See also:

• WORK

work outside the town . The great See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque, now in a ruinous See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, was built A.H . 796 (A.D . 1394) by See also:

• KAREN

Karen b..Jamshid and repaired by Yusof Dowlatyar .