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BUR—BUZ
As a distributing centre Burujird is of much importance, roads radiating
from it as under :—
To Shushtar via Khurramabad and Dizful 257 miles.
„ Kirmanshah .. .. .. 120 „
„ Hamadan .. .. .. 95 „
„ Sultanabad .. .. .. 60 „
„ Qum via Sultanabad .. .. 82 „
„ Tehran via Sultanabad and Qum 234 „
„ Tehran direct .. .. .. 226 „
„ Isfahan " .. .. • • 230 „
The road to Sultanabad is very good and if the Shushtar road were
developed and peace maintained, Burujird would develop into a large and
important town on account of the convenience of its situation. All kinds of
supplies are to be got in the bazar, which possesses a Persian telegraph office,
but in 1911-12 the wires were so frequently cut, that communication was
completely interrupted. The town is entirely enveloped in gardens, each with
its picturesque little summer house. Scattered round the city are about 50
villages. The water supply seems unlimited throughout the valley, and as it
is very near the surface it could easily be procured even in very dry years :
grapes and melons are plentiful. On the hills above'the town are many
thriving villages. There is a regiment of infantry quartered here,
nominally 1,000 strong, but it is doubltful whether more than two or three
hundred exist; the town is the place of embodiment of the Savareh-i-
Bakhtiari and Yar Ahmadh nominally 1,000 strong, but it is very doubtful
if even 200 exist. Here are also a few gunners, 6 brass guns made in
Austria, and 700 muzzle-loading muskets. Burujird was like most places in
Persia, in a more or less continual state of unrest during the years 1909-12.
In January 1911 the Lurs rose against Muntasir-ud-Douleh, the Governor-
General, because the latter had executed Latlf Khan, Salar us-Saltaneh,
a relative of the Lur chiefs. Burujird wuis also the scene of some fighting
during Salar-ud-Douleh's rebellion of 1911, for which see Kirmanshah ”.
(Preece ; Picot.)
BUSAJAN, CORRUPTED form of BASTIJAN—
A ruined village miles from Damghan on the road to Shahrud.
(Schindler.)
BUSAR—
A village in Gilan, a mile north of Rasht.— (Schindler.)
BUSTANAK—
A village situated in an extensive and fertile plain. It is 136 miles
from Qum, on the road to Suitanieh, 101 miles from Tehran on the
Tehran-Kazvln-Hamadan road, and 32 from Kazvin. The inhabitants talk
Turkish.— (Jukes; Campbell; Schindler.)
BUY ARAN—see BIBARAN—
BUYUKABAD—see BlBIKABAD—
BUZABAD—see ABUZAIDABAD—
BUZANAJIRD—see BIZNAGIRD.