Harāt

Harat is a town on the dry Iranian plateau where Fars meets Kerman, in the Marvast country south of Yazd. Medieval geographers including Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal recorded a town of this name in the Istakhr region of Fars. The district around it, with Bavanat to the west and Niriz to the south, was a block of Fars on the Kerman border, living from grain watered by underground channels. In later centuries that country passed from Fars toward Kerman and Yazd.