Минаев И. - Сведения о странах по верховьям Аму-Дарьи (1879)

■да описанныхъ сосѣднихъ округовъ вѣрсцл, язикомъ, характеромъ, обычаями и одѣяніями. Жители собственнаго Бадакшана суть Тажики, Тюрки и/крабы; они сунниты и говорятъ по персидски и тюркски: жители болѣе горныхъ округовъ суть Тажики и шіиты; имѣютъ отдѣльны?! згѣ- Стёыя йарѣшя,. но W Равнѣйшихъ мѣстахъ жители говорятъ по персидски. Манфуль насчитываетъ слѣдующія нарѣчія: ікмнанк въ ТПагаапѣ и въ Ропганѣ, идікадтми г,ъ Шика шматѣ, ваахи въ Ваханѣ, сапгдичи въ Сангличѣ и въ Зебакѣ, минжанд въ Минжапѣ, Большинство населенія собственнаго Вадакшаиа суть Тажнки; Тюрки гораздо богаче Тажиковъ и превосходятъ ихъ храбростью и предпріимчивостью въ войнѣ и въ торговлѣ. • ' Восточныя области Бядакшапа, о которыхъ папднтъ Манфулъ сообщаетъ гораздо менѣе, нежели о центральныхъ, въ послѣднее время были посѣщены членами Форсайтовой экспедиціи, и собранныя ИМИ свѣдѣнія В0‘ многомъ доііолпяіотъ извѣстія пандита. Баханъ \) простирается отъ верховьевъ Пянжи по долинѣ той же рѣки, отъ Занга до Ишкашима. Большой и малый Памиръ принадлежатъ Вахану: р. Акъ-таш ь составляетъ его границу съ Каш* гаріей. Оба Памира густо шелепы Киргизами? рѣ 'прежніе годя ') Tfifties ]s c.j стр. ЭТй: The. diegtrfct of Тайный... сишргівсз the valleys containing Che Iwo huads <if the Panjah branch of the Oxns, and. the valley of the Panjah itself,. liora the junction at Zung down to Ыік&зЬіт.... ths great Pamir... as well a& the. tittle Tamil’ belongs co Waklinji,. the Ak-tagb Biver forming the well recognised boundary between Kasligbailn and Wakhdn. Both of the Pamirs were thickly inhabited by Kirghiz in former years, subject to Wakhan, but they are now nnor-cnpieil, the constant tends between the Shiglinte, lite WiikKis, the Kirghiz of the Alai, anil Ilie Ktuijtidis, having rendered the countiT-y quite unsafe. The highest inhabited village in .t-ііё northern vftlhey is Langer Kislit, only a faw miles above the junction, and on the right bank of the stream.

The Sarh&dd valley (the southern brunch) is inhabited from Sacliadd downwards, and there are villages scattered along bolb banks, of the Panjah river down la lehkashim. Wakhan formerly coutained three <sads* or hundreds, i. c. districts, containing 100 houses each—1st, Sad-i-Kila VflWfr of Sarhadd extending from Langur to Hiesar. 2iidv—Satl-i-Fn,Tynh from Шззат to Khacdut. 3rd—^»d Kliaudzit from Khandut to S«d Ishiragb. To these three Sade has recently been added that of Sad hhtragh, which Ihaliove only Vecmne a portion ofWukhait in recent times. TL lies between Khandut end rhe Slat’e of Tshkrndiiin. АЫііі Snbhan estimates Che noniher of liansos in Sad Tshtragh at 230, and allowing 100 lor each of t-lie other districts this gives a totul of 5Й) hopsfeg, with a population of about 3J&5 souls-