Samalqān

Samalqan occupies a stretch of the middle Atrek basin in northern Khorasan. Here the river follows a winding course between mountain ridges and opens toward the Gorgan plain farther west. The valleys contain numerous ancient sites, including settlements and burial places of the Bronze Age. Qazi is one of the local settlements of this mountain country, where the approaches from the east descend toward the broad lands near the Caspian.