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are no gardens or vineyards to screen the village, and the mud houses are
only of a single storey, with a small enclosure for cattle. The whole
covers a small extent of ground and could not be held for half an hour
against a force provided with guns.— (Napier.)
laileh—
(Also called Ab-i-Zalan). A river in Kurdistan. It is the same as Burton ? s
‘ L usha ’ and Haussknecht’s ‘ Leheleh-Su Lehi-Su of the 6-sheet maps. It
has two sources, known as Sar-i-Bast, two farsakhs from the village of Zalan
in the Juamud buluk. It rises in the high Kuhd-Bast.,
The Sar-i-Bast is a copious spring flowing out of a rock with a volume of
7,900 gallons per minute. This water flows first eastwards for 3 000 rar
(3,500 yards) then to the north for 2,000 zar (2,333 yards) and win
south-west and west until it joins the Shirvan river (1902).
According to Burton the ‘Laileh’or ‘ Lusha ’ as he has it,'flows into the
Zimkan river according to him the Lusha and Zalan are two separate
rivers (1910). ^
LAJANA—
A stage 32 miles east of Samnan, on the road from Tabas via Jumin. Water
is scrarce here.— (Morier.)
LAKE—(LEKKS).
A nomadic tribe of Persia, who are generally dispersed throughout that
country, but whose chief seats are about Kazvln, and in the Provinces of
Ears and Mazandaran.
LAKEHSAR—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali (q.v.).
For further details see Volume III, LURISTAN.
LAKLAR—
A large village in Azarbaijan, near the foot of the Sahand mountain on
the right of -the road from Mianduab to Binab, about 14 miles from the former
place.— (Gerard.)
LALABAN ok LALEHBAN—
There are many villages of this name in the Kalhur part of the Mahidasht
plain on the left of the MahTdasht-Harunabad road before entering fU*
Gardaneh Chahar Zabar, namely g tiie
Lalaban ulia.
Lalaban sufla or Chega-Safar.
Lalaban or Meimass. ' ,
Lalaban or Chega Kalb ’AH.
Lalaban or Ban-Larini.
Lalaban or Deh-Jami.
Lalaban Saiyid ’Abdul Muhammadl.
In the Mahidasht revenue list we have Lalaban : Mallat Km 1 584
374 cUdrs and cash and Kharwdrs 66. 97. 29 grain : and in the Kalhur re
venue list: Lalaban Muhammad Riza Khan belonging to Vakil-ud-Dauleh •
Krs. 228-855 d'ndrs cash, and Kharwdrs 1. 8. 20 grain Maliat In th- Re*
venue Department list of villages there is given a°LaIaban Saiyid Hajl! ^