Kashafrud River

Kashafrud or Kashafrud River is a river that flows from the Hezar Masjed Mountains in Razavi Khorasan Province in northeast of Iran. After passing from the vicinity of the cities of Radkan and Chenaran in Razavi Khorasan Province and then passing north and east of the city of Mashhad, the Kashfrud joins the Harirud River at the frontier of Iran and Turkmenistan.[1][2][3]

Geography

The Kashaf Rood River is 240km. in length and originates from mountain ranges of Hezar Masjed and Binalood.[4]

The main town on the river is the city of Mashad.[5][6] The town of Tus is also on the river.

The river is irrigated, and known since the Middle Ages for its fertility.>[7]

History

Alexander the Great passed through the valley of the Kashaf River.[8] The Arabs entered the valley in 650AD.[9] Sultan Abu Said built a dam on the river.[10] The Geographer Al-Tusi was from the Kashafrud valley. The army of Genghis Khan attacked the region of the Kashafrud in 1220AD.

References
  1. http://www.itto.org/tourismattractions/?sight=1746
  2. W. B. Fisher, The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 1(Cambridge University Press, 1968) p64.
  3. Microsoft Encarta World Atlas 2001, Microsoft Corporation
  4. http://www.itto.org/tourismattractions/?sight=1422
  5. Mashhad , Encyclopedia Bristanica.
  6. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, Unesco, History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century (UNESCO, 1 Jan. 2003) p403.
  7. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, Unesco, History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century (UNESCO, 1 Jan. 2003) p403.
  8. Arrian3. 25. 1.
  9. Tabari, Chronique, la version persane de Bel'ami, tr. Zotenberg, 3. 571, (Paris, 1867-1874).
  10. Maria Subtelny, Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran, Volume 7 (BRILL, 2007) p127.


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