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barley are grown in its highlands. It is inhabited by some of the Khwa-
javand tribe from Ardalan and Luristan. These were originally nomads
but now inhabit different villages, moving about from one to the other
as they find it convenient. They keep cattle, but employ themselves as well
in the cultivation of the soil.— {Holmes.)
TUNDARUN—
A village of 20 houses, population 120, in the Tirunkarvan district, about
40 miles from Isfahan on the road thence to Burujird. There are twelve
pairs of oxen for the plough ; 130,000 lbs. of grain are sown yearly ; taxes.
700 tumdns.—{Preece ; Schindler.)
TUQCHAL— . .
A village at the southern end of the Jajrud valley, east of Tehran,
Hadavand nomads liv, there in winter.— {Schindler.)
TUREH— cf. AB-I-TUREH.
A stream in the Burujird district; it runs through the Tang-i-Tureh
skirting the road ; it is here 20 to 50 feet wide ; current ranid ; the bed is
stony, and 30 feet deep in places, with a width of 50 to 2* 0 feet; willows
border its banks ; it is spanned at the village of Turehby a five-arched
masonry bridge, about 40 yards long, suitable for one line of traffic ; its
parapet is in ruins. There is a road along the right bank. This stream
joins another at Pul-i-du-ab {q.v.), and then flows north under the name
of Ab-i-Mani- u.— {Bell, 1884.)
TUREH—Elev. 6,220'.
A small village embedded in trees, gardens and vineyards, on the road
between Sultanabad and Burujird, about 36 miles from the latter, at the
foot of a high mountain. The Tang-i-Tureh ends here and opens out
into a well cultivated valley 500 to 800 ya'ds wide beariug360 3 and 140°.
Between this and Harun, on th^ road to Sultanabad, a bridge is cross' d (in
good repair) of 9 arches thrown across a large stream flowing north. A
fairly good caravansarai. The road here is good and broad Tureh has 160
houses ; population 440 ; 46 pairs of plough oxen ; 90,000 lbs. of grain sown
yearly; there are 130 carpet looms. Also corn, cottou, hemo and
castor are grown, the latter very poor, only 2 or 3 feet high with small
pods. Water in abundance.— {Cunningham; Preece.)
TURAT—ERAT or FUR AT {q.v.).
A village with water and a few supplies, 16 miles from Damghan, on
the road thence to Yazd via Jandak.—(MacGVegw.)
turignarin—
A fort, about 8 miles west of Majidabad, on the Qum-Sultanleh road
via Sagzlabad. Three streams of good water heme.—{Jukes.)
TURK-I-MA’AFl—
Name a of a tribe living in the Tehran province.
TURKl VAIRAN—
A large village on the borders of Azarbaijan and Persian Kurdistan
2 miles to the left of the Tabriz-Kirmanshah road, between Salnkaleh and
San j ud .—{N apier.)