'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎11v] (27/706)

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AB-I-S—AB-I-Y
It now takes a south-west direction still preserving the same name.
Below the junction of the Sulaiman eh river it receives from the Zagros,
on the east side, two considerable streams, the first at 35 miles from that
junction, call d the ’Abbasan and the second called the Kuretu 25 miles
further on. .
The Ab-i-Slfrwan now runs nearly south for about 30 miles when it
receives the Hulwan near Khaniq'n, whence the united waters take the
name of Diala {q. v.).
On the road between Sulaiman’eh and Kirmanshah there is a ford at
Baneh Kalan, which is practicable in summer, but in the winter wholly
impassable. There was formerly a substantial brick bridge over the river
at this point.
It is not navigable at any part of its course, but timber is frequently
floated down to the Tigris from the mountains of Kurdistan.
From near the town r f Gundar to the plain of Slvrwadeh, this river forms
the boundary between Persia and Turkey. It is also called the Upper
Diala, Rohava, and Rakam ‘h. Its water is unwholesome.— (Rawlinson —
Jones —T. C. Plowden).
1B-I-SHUR (see ABHAR RUD)—
AB-I-SURKAUL—
A river in Kurdistan. It rises near the village Katawan in the Manvan
buluk, passes the village Surkaul after a flow of six far akhs, then four
farsakh lower down takes up the Mar" v in river and six far akhs further
joins the Gavrud at the village ’Abbasabad in the Avrom m balak.—
(Schindler.)
Ab-i-tahTj—
The river, which waters the S’lakhiir plain in the Burujird district. It
rises on the Kuh-i-Garru, north-west of Burljird, and flows south-east,
joining the Kamand-ab at Bahrain, and forming with that river the Ab-i-
Diz.— (Schindler.)
AB-I-T ALVAR—
A river in Kurdistan. It rises near the village Gazgaz“reh and Karabu-
lagh in the Yailaq bulnk, 5 far akhs east of Sinandij. 8 farsakh from the
city it flows past the village Talvar and then flows northwards to the Kizil
Uzfm, which it joins near the village Sal ivaUbad.— (Schindler.)
Ab-i-tureh—
A stream formed by the Ab-i-Tureh from the west and a small stream
from the east, crossed by the Pul-i-Duab, at about 40 miles from Burujird
on the road to Qum.— (Bell.)
Ab-i-yalpAn—
A river which rises a little above the village Arzanpud on the eastern
slopes of the Alvand mountain. The road from Daulatlbld Maliyar to
Hamadan crosses it several times, viz., at 6|, 6|, 6g, and 5jf miles from
Hamadan by single-arched bridges. From the last bridge it flows in a
north-east direction towards the plains north of Hamadan, past Tafrijan
and ^uikhkhUd—(Schindler.)