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^044 KHA—KHA
The finest valley in Arabia Felix, Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bana not excepted. It runs down from the
■Western slopes of Jabal Nabi Shaib (Jabal Hadhur) with a breadth across its confining
hUls of ten miles, all terraced, thick with crops, and dotted with villages and towers down
to its bed 3,000 feet below the Hodeida-Sana'a road at Suq-al-Kham.s. Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Khanfi
drains into Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirdid.—(/. D. Cairo, 1913.)
KHARlFOT— t t , v , ,,
The name of a village, and a ravine, in the Dhufar district (q.v.), of the south
coast of Arabia.
KHARIJiYAH—
A tract in the Samawah Qadha {q.v.) of Iraq.
KHARIJIYAH
The largest village on the island of Sitrah {q.v.), of the Bahrain archipalaga.
KHARISAH—
See Southern Shanlmar tribe, Dighairat division.
KHARJ— ( ^ # j i i x * jl
A district of the Wahhabi dominions or southern Najd ; it is adjoined by Andh on
the north and by Hariq and Hautah on the west; on the other sides it is enclosed by
deserts. It is understood to extend about 40 miles from north to south and the same
from east to west.
Physical diaractenstics.—KhQx] is a sandy plain without any remarkable physical
features. The Sahabah tract on the north-east is closely connected with Kharj, but
should probably be regarded as distinct. On the east side Kharj passes into a sandy
and at times stony country called Maraghah ; on the south it shades off into a bare sandy
desert known as Dahi; on the west it is divided from Hautah by Saut, a stretch of low
flat country containing tamarisk and acacia trees. The drainage of the Hautah and
Hariq districts is brought to Dilam in Kharj by a hollow ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Braik) which has its
beginning at Hautah town, or even further away, to the west-south-west; and the Sha'ib
'Alaiyah reaches from the eastern face of Jabal 'Alaiyah to the village of Yamamah in
Kharj ; on the other hand Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah, though it approaches the district from the
north, is dissipated, in Sahabah and does not enter Kharj. There is one flowing stream
in the district, that of Farzan, which rises on the west side of the Kharj villages
and after ma kin g its way across some miles of sandy country is utilised for the irriga
tion of crops. The air of Kharj is described as healthy and refreshing.*
Topography, population and resources. —The following table contains some particulars
of the principal places in Kharj—
Katne.
'Adhar .<
Balaisah
Position,
On the west or south
west side of Dilam,
the date groves of
the two places
being almost conti
nuous.
A short distance to
the south-west of
'Adhar.
Nature.
A village of about 40
houses, viz., 20 of
Bani Tamim, 10 of
'Aid and 10 of in
ferior tribes.
Formerly a village,
now deserted.
Remark?,
There is considerable
cultivation of dates
and wheat; live
stock are estimated
at 50 camels, 20
donkeys and 40
cattle. The wells
are 6 fathoms deep.
There is not even
cultivation now at
this place.
•So far as Is known Kharj has not yet been visited by any European travejler.