Shāhrakht

Shahrakht lies in the Zirkuh country east of Qaen, close to the mountains that give the district its name. Medieval geographers counted Shirakhs among the towns of these foothills. North of the settlement stands the fortress of Hasan Baykhan, attributed to the Seljuk period. The region's castles and cultivated villages occupy a dry borderland between the mountains and the plains of eastern Khorasan.