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and ordered the name of the plain to be changed from Dasht Khush to
Dasht-Talkh-B uin.)
f( Fot list of villages in the district and further information see Rabino’s
‘ Report on Kurdistan. ” The water of Baneh is good.—(Schindler 1910 •
Rabino, 1911.) ’
BANEH (Tribe).—
The name of the tribe occupying Baneh District (q.v.), now (1910) almost
sedentary . Originally a branch of the Mik i tribe (q.v.). Their mounted
force is very variously estimated, but their footmen are widely armed
with Martini rifles and fight well.— (Soane, 1910.)
BANlAN DARREH (or valley)—
From the village of Karambas above to the village of Bizarud below are
3 miles of the most luxuriant gardens and vineyards, watered with a plenti
ful stream augmented by springs from the hill sides. The gardens are
fringed with poplars, walnut and fruit trees. The valley is a narrow gome
with steeply-rising bare hills on either side ; its stream, after passing through
the village of Bizarud, flows into the Khandula stream near the Kirmanshah-
Kandula road The elevation is from 5,550 feet to 6,210 feet, and the
climate is delightful m summer, but severe in vrintev.—(Burton)
BANlGAS MOUNTAIN—
A bare and lofty ridge on the right bank of the Zimkan river, along which
it extends, from the Mamakura to the Kaleh KazI mountain It has no
very conspicuous summit, but north of the gorge of the Halur river by which
only its continuity is broken, it attains a height of some 4,000 feet above the
stream. It forms the watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. between Malndasht and the Zimkan and
is crossed by paths between the two valleys. Its outlines are rounded and it
is quite bare of trees. Its general direction is from north-west to south-east
It is said to contain many springs.— (Burton.)
BANKER—
The name of a tract of country in Kirmanshah lying between the Iwan
and Asmanabad valleys. It consists of small valleys alternating with rounded
hills that rise one above another in easy slopes. It is well-wooded a drv
water-course runs down from it in a south-south-east direction and joins
the stream from Asmanabad near its exit from that valley. Several roads
and tracks cross it, m., the roads connecting the two vaUeys above referred
to, and the road from Mandali to Harunabad via the Tang-i-Jumark A
geiitle open slope from Bankur, ascends tolthe summit of the highest
peak of the Mamsht Kuh, which overlooks the Dehbaja, Chavar and Iwan
valleys. The Mamsht Kuh would form a good signalling post.— {Vauahan 1
BAN LAILAK (KURDISTAN)- ^ }
A division of Kurdistan to the east of Sinneh. It has the appearance
of a plain broken into hills, with a line of hills running through it
considered very cool during the hot season.— (Rich.) S • -it is
BANUT-KI or BANATAK SADAT—
A village in the Mian Kuh district of Ynzd.—(McGreqor )
BANVIZ—See BAMBIZ.