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AB-I-Q—AB-IS-
La'lbar after passing the villages of Charras and Arkedeh forces its way
through a narrow gorge and enters the Mahallat district, takes up its
drainage and flows in a north-easterly direction towards Qum. It is
generally called Anarbar from Mahallat down. There are bridges at
Nimvar, Dudehek, Naizar, and Qum. Opposite the village of Qumrud
the waters are raised for irrigation purposes by a dam called Band-i-’Omar.
— (Schindler.)
Ab-i-qumarkhun—
A river which runs into the Ab-i-Kulan, a few miles above Paihan (q.v.)
it is formed by the junction of the Ab-i-Khushkadar and the Ab-i-Sardarreh,
the former rising in Kazzaz, the latter on the eastern slopes of the hills
west of Burujird.
It is crossed on the roads Burujird-Qum and Burujird-Hamadan. On the
former it is 50 feet wide and 3 feet deep, banks low, current swift, bed of
boulders, elevation 6,250 feet.
AB-I-QURATft—
The river which passes near Quratil is also called Quratu, and has its
source at farsakhs\ from Zuhab at a spot called Sarab-Saiyid-Sadkp
The banks of the river for some'miles are covered with red oleander. It
runs into the Diala Rud (q. v.) (Rabino, 1907.)
Ab-i-ruvAnsar—
Is the river of the district of the same name in Kurdistan. It flows into
the Kara Su of Kirmanshah after a course of 12 farsakhs—(Schindler.)
Ab-i-saman—
A river rising at Saman, south-west of Daulatiibad, and flowing into
the Ab-i-Kulan near Karkan.— (Schindler.)
Ab-i-sard—
A village, 50 miles east of Tehran and south of Damavand. It is one
of a group of seven fine villages in the fertile valley of Damavand. Sup
plies and water plentiful.— (Stewart — Napier.)
AB-I-SHlRlN (Sweet water) —
A small village, 24 miles north-north-west of Kashan. Notwithstand
ing its name, the water here is extremely brackish.— (Gibbons.)
AB-I-SHlRVANEH. See AB-I-ZARlNJUB.
AB-I-SHlRWAN. See also AB-I-KARIND.
A river of Kirmanshah, which rises near Sinneh and flows towards the
Avroman mountains, where it receives numerous petty tributaries. About
10 miles beyond Darneh in the same direction, it takes a westerly course of
20 miles through the mountains to Gundar, where it receives the Zimkan
Rud which rises near Gahvareh in the Guran country at about 70 miles
distance towards the south-east. Immediately after this increase the Ab-i-
Shlrwan forces ros way through a narrow gorge (without even suffleient space
for a footpath along its bank) into the plain of Sem/ram. where it is joined
by a considerable affluent, formed by the waters of the Taj Rud and Salmi
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