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r v. 1.0 fnnncl except after rain. Kubbar Island has no anchorage which
^ T Wa u h ?a ^hamal best berth being south-south-east of the island in
Sotll in fine wither good landing will be found at the
^o^ns^l^S'in 1906. bnt they disappeared ahnost immediately.
In the interests of navigation, however, another beacon was erected in January 1914.
It is 30 feet high, and is visible from about 11 miles.
KUBTH— . , , TT ., , ,
A small fortified hamlet in western Hadhramaut and situated between Haid Maijum
and Kr L Stam on the route leading from Maqatin to Yashhum. Iln a hamlet .3
the nroperty of the ruling clan of the district.
KUDMIYAH (J abal)—•
A hill in Yemen, situated 9 or 10 miles oast by south from Laluyah and overlooking
Wadi Mur from its right bank.—(IF. 0. Map, 1915.)
KUFAH— t
A town in Turkish 'Iraq ; it stands on the right bank of the Shatt-al-Hindiyah at a
distancl of 6 miles eastwards, by road, from Najaf Town. The original Kufah, founded
about 638 A. D., was in early Islamic times among the most famous of cities, and under
the 'Omaivids shared with Basrah the honour of being one of the Iraqan, that is, one
of the twin capitals of 'Iraq ; but it subsequently declined and disapi^ared - the mo cm
town is not more than 20 years old. The name is said to mean the (city of) reed
^The ancient Persian city of Hirah probably stood 2 or 3 miles to the south of Kufah,
and the battle of Qadislyah, which in 635 A. D. gave the province of Iraq to the rising
Muhammadan power, appears to have been fought at a place m the desert about 15 miba
west of Kufah ; this Qadislyah is not to be confounded with the place ot the a
name on the Tigris above Baghdad. In 'Abbasid times the Hajj route from Baghdad
Kufah the Hindiyah stream is 150 yards broad
and flow® deepest in the neighbourhood of the right bank, where, at the present time about
6 feet of^ water may be found in midwinter. At this place the Hindiyah is spanned by
a bridge of 16 boats, each of which is 30 feet long, 10 feet wrde and 4 fee eep, ie
roadwav is 8 feet wide, and there is a handrail about 3 feet high on each side from end
told 5 This bridge is now in bad repair. There is a small island 200 yards above and
another 350 yards below the bridge ; these are both wooded, and either ^ould ox
good eover or support to a bridging party. Quarter of a mile above the bridge the
H r^«dT^te^--MfaT d eonsists of about COO 1,ous f • of ^
mortar, and 100 occupied shops ; its frontage on the river is 500 to_ 600 yards, ihe
whole town is upon the western bank, but there is one private Khan on the 0 PPOs
side about 50 yards above the bridge. The present population of Kufah is about 3,000
souls of whom one -fourth may be Persians (including a few Persiamsed Baluchis) wh le
the remainder are Shi'ah Arabs ; but this estimate does not include residents of iNajaf
Town who have houses or offices at Kufah and visit them often for pleasure or business.
itesourc&s. —Kufah, always the port of Najaf, is now a general entrepot of trade an d
the distributing centre, for a wide tract of country, of goods brought by water from
Basrah Town. On the river bank are numerous store houses and places of business,
where the exports and imports of Hillah, Najaf and other places he awaiting disposal.
Kufah is surrounded on all sides by excellent date P'^'^hrHindivah' 3 Mt
earden cultivation belonging to the place upon the left bank of the Hmdryah. iruit,
vegetables and forage can be had in abundance at Kufah in the such
Ch S^r-Sh i^Xarters of a mhiyah ^he Q^dha of N^af