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KUM-KUR
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KUMH (K hor)—
Set Farasan (Island and Bank); bank, western side.
KUMZAR—
A small town on the coast of the 'Oman Sultanate, the capital of the Bani Shatair
section of the Shihuh tribe, situated at the bottom of a cove in the northern face of the
Ruus-al-Jibal promontory; it stands at the mouth of a gloomy valley or gorge in the
hills which is named Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Marwani. Ther^' is no route by land from Kamzar to any
other place. Kumzar consists of about 600 low stone houses of Shihuh of the Bani
Shatair section : there are two large whitewashed mosques. The people are fishermen
and have no cultivation of any sort; they own 4.0 or 50 fishing-boats and 5 sea-going
boats that run to Qishm, Dibai and Masqat Town with cargoes of salt, fish and shark-
fins. Small quantities of dried and salted fish are exported also to Kuwait and Basrah.
The Kumzaris have no pearl-boats of their own, but a few of them go to the banks on
Sharjah and Dibai vessels. In the date season all but a very few persons migrate,
mostly to Khasab and Dibah; the women go to the date harvest there or elsewhere,
the men to the date harvest or the pearl fishery, and the 3 or 4 individuals who
remain take charge of the flocks of the absentees.
KUNARAH (Q asr)—
The name by which the fort at Dohah {q.v.) was known to the Turks. By the Arabs
this fort was known simply as Qal-at-al-'Askar.
KUNA—
A small village in the Hadhramaut in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Adlm {q.v, ). This place is al o called
Kutna.— {Bent.)
KUNUD—
Singular Kindi. A scattered Ghafiri tribe of 'Oman, Ibadhis in religion. They are
found at Nizwa in 'Oman proper, where they have 40 houses and which may be regarded
as their capital; also in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'awal at Nakhl (50 houses) and in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Jizi and its
tributaries at Sahailah (100 houses), Milaiyinah (15 houses), Hail-ash-Shiya (10 houses),
Hail-ar-Rafsah (60 houses) and Thiqbah 20 houses). They occur also at Hail, Ghallah
(20 houses) and Furfar in the Shamailiyan tract, and are found in Independent 'Oman
at Baraimi village and in Mahadhah. None of the tribe are Bedouins. Their total
number may be estimated at 1,500 souls.
KUNUD (H arat-al)—
One of the quarters of Baraimi village {q.v.) in independent 'Oman.
KURA (U mm-al)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, eastern side.
KURBAH (W adi -A bxt)—
A tributary of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dhank {q.v.), in the Sultanate of 'Oman.
KURD—
A tract in the Salahiyah Nahiyah of the Shamiyah Qadha {q.v.) of the Baghdad
Wilayat.
KURD TRIBE—
Plural Akrad, a well known race of the Perso-'Iraq frontier.
In 'Iraq the Kurds are mostly Failiyah, that is they belong to the Faili section of the
tribe. They are most numerous on the Tigris, where Shaikh Sa'ad is an entirely Kurdish
village, and more than half the inhabitants cf Bghailah and Kut-al-Amarah are Kurds ;
Kurdish communities are found also at Suwairah and 'Ali-al-Gharbi upon the same
river; and there are many Kurds at Baghdad where they are mostly known as porters
and labourers. Part of the population at Hai and at Qal'at Sikar upon the Shatt-al-
Gharaf are Kurds ; and Badra and Jassan, which lie nearer to the hills than do the places
already mentioned, are predominantly Kurdish. The Kurds form one of the finest
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