Imported from Turkey by Elwood Fisher of Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1986.The cultivar name 'Havran' comes from the name of a town in western Turkey. Fruits are very large, ovate-pyriform, with large oblong neck; surface pubescent, yellowish green to deep yellow with few small dots; stem set obliquely in obtuse, shallow, slightly furrowed cavity; basin deep to very deep, wide, furrowed; flesh pale creamish white, coarse grained, subacid and a very characteristic flavor; core median, open, wide and cordate; calyx-tube open, short; seeds numerous, large, brown and acute. -- J.T. Sykes, Economic Botany, 1972.