Rāz

Raz lies in the mountainous middle Atrek basin of northern Khorasan. The river winds through narrow valleys between the Kopet Dag to the north and the Aladagh to the south, before continuing west toward the Gorgan plain. Archaeological sites across the basin show that its intermontane valleys supported communities in the Bronze Age. Raz belongs to this country of ridges, streams and sheltered pockets of settlement.