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MAK—MAL
MAKE I— (1) — vide MUHAMMAREH (District).
MAKRl (2)— Lat. 28° 48' N. ; Long. 51° 15' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 6 miles sonth-south-west of
Abram, on the west side of the Tangistan valley. It contains 20 houses
and grows wheat, barley and dates.— {Persian Gvlf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MAKSAR (Village) — vide JARRAHl (River).
MAKSAR—
A canal branching off from the right bank of the Jarrahi river. The
dependent population consists of Ka’b of the Al Bu Na’im section. It
irrigates about 15 fadddns.— (Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MAKSAR ’ATIQEH (Village)— wde JARRAHl (River.)
MALAGAUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of Luristan to the south of the Deh Bala-Khurramabad road,
which extends in a south-easterly direction from a point a little to the
east of Deh Bala to the Birinjan gorge, traversed by the Saimarreh river.
The south-eastern extremity of the range is termed Chamalgir.—(Rwrfon,
1897.)
MIL AGHA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in Khuzistan, on the banks of the Ab-i-A’la, north-east of Ram
Hormuz and under the hills of Mangasht. It is described as a pleasant
valley, thickly wooded with gigantic walnut trees. It is much frequented
by the Janiki Garmsir Bakhtiari.—(Layard.)
MAL AHMADl—
A tribe of Bakhtiari originally a sub-division of the Baidarwands. They
have, however, long separated from them, and now encamp perfectly distinct.
They accompanied Nadir Shah in his expedition against Kandahar, and
afterwards settled for a short period in Kandahar. They then returned
to their own country by Sist an and Kirman to Shiraz, and settled in the
district of Falard, driving out the original possessors. The country occupied
by them being within Ears, they pay tribute to the governor, but the
tribe itself being included within the division of the Bakhtiari, they also
pay the capitation tax,—the former amounts to 400 tumdns, the latter
to 300. They consist of about 1,000 families.— (Layard.)
MALlKEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 20 houses of K’ab of the Dris division, situated on the left
bank of the Bahmanshir about a mile above Shakhat HajI Is-haq on the
opposite side.— (Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MALAMlR— Lat. 31° 51* N.; Long. 49° 58* E. ; Elev. 2,950*.
An extensive plain in the heart of the Bakhtiari country. It is a remarkable
feature in so rugged a country in that it is perfectly flat. It is oval in shape,
being about 15 miles by 8, and surrounded on all sides by mountains rising
to a normal height of 1,500 feet above the plain. Those on the west side are
low and those to the north and east lofty and falling, as a rule, precipitously