KUCHA  .N, a fertile and populous See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the See also:

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

province See also:

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

Khorasan in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, bounded N. by the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian Transcaspian territory, W. by Bujnurd, S. by Isfarain, and extending in the E. to near Radkan . Its See also:

• AREA

area is about 3000 sq. m. and its See also:

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

population, principally composed of Zafaranlu Kurds, descendants of tribes settled there by Shah Abbas I. in the 17th See also:

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

century, is estimated at roo,000 . About 3000 families are nomads and live in tents . The district 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, 25,000 to 30,000 tons yearly, and contains two towns, See also:

• KUCHAN

Kuchan and See also:

• SHIRVAN

Shirvan (pop . 6000), and many villages .