Afghanistan

Chapter 43: APPENDIX III

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The author provides a detailed contemporary survey combining historical overview with firsthand travel observation of the country’s geography, regions, and population. Chapters describe urban centres and rural districts, tribal structures, social and religious customs, and administrative practices, while assessing frontier and boundary concerns and relations with neighbouring powers. Attention is given to economic resources, trade routes, and natural history, supported by illustrations, maps, and synthesized official material. The result is an informative, largely descriptive account intended to convey both practical travel knowledge and a picture of prevailing political and social conditions.

APPENDIX III

Kishlak, a village of sedentary Turcomans, as opposed to Aoul, the nomad village.

Mekteb, the lower-class Mussulman elementary school.

Medresse, university of a theological order.

Arik, canal or channel diverted from river for irrigation purposes.

TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS

1 sagene	= 7 ft.
1 dessiatine (= 2400 sq. sagenes)	= 432 sq. roods (2.70 acres)
1 square sagene	= 49 sq. ft.
1 arshine	= .77 yard (2.33 ft.)
1 vershok	= 1.75 in.

A dessiatine (land measure) is a parallelogram having a length of 80 sagenes and a breadth of 30 sagenes, or it may be 40 by 60 sagenes, therefore the dessiatine is 2400 square sagenes, or 21,600 square arshines.

1 verst = ⅔ of an English mile.