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BlLlDEH (1) —Buluk or District of Kirmanshah.
The country situated between half a farsakh and about 2 farsalchs from
the town, is known as the Baladeh, and is under the authority of Mahmud
Khan, Chief of the Government grain stores. The Baladeh is said to con
tain some 20 villages and hamlets.
The villagers of the Kirmanshah district have no pasture land, but give
their cattle to Chu'pankaras, or the shepherd families of some of the tribes,
to be taken to the pasture lands of the Hulailanis and other tribes, for
which a rent is paid. The following Baladeh villages pay revenue :—Kir-
manshah-i-Kuhneh, Babajan, Tueh Latif, Darakeh ’Ulla, Darakeh Sufia,
Sarab Khushkeh, Y; Iveh, Chashmeh Yarvali, Simaneh ’Ulia, Simaneh Sufia.
Karatappeh, Chaga Zard, Chaman.— (Rabino, 1907.)
BALADEH ( 2 )— Lat. 36° 45'; Long. 51° 45'. Elev. 6,800'.
A large village in the Nur district of Maz-n laran, 40 miles north by east of
Tehran. It has from 1,000 to 1,200 inhabitants and some fine gardens.
The houses are of better style than usual.— [Lovett; Schindler.)
BALAJAR—
A village of Kurdistan, 15 miles from Sakiz (Saqqiz) on the road to
Sulaiman’eh.
BALALAM—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the Caspian a little west of Rud-i-Sar.
— [Holmes.)
BAlA raw and—
A place in the Kirmanshah district. It is inhabited by the Kulapar
clan of the Kalhur tribe [q.v.).—[Plowden.)
BAlARUD—
A village, n : ne miles from Zinjan on the Zinjaneh Rud in Khamseh.—
[Schindler.)
BALISEH—
A small river in
the
Gilan a few miles east of Langarud. It is
boundary between the district of Ranaku and Langarud.—(tfoZmes.)
BALISHT—
A village of 30 houses of Kulbai Kurds ; above it is the residence of Sher
’Ali the Khan of Balisht. It is situated about 20 miles east of Sunqur ;
the stream draining the Balisht valley joins the Sunqur stream about 10
miles south-east of that town. The valley itself is deep and narrow ; the
villages standing some 200 feet above the stream on the mountain slopes.
The stream is lined with vineyards and trees. A mile above Bahsht on the
onposite bank, is the village of Khura, below are many vil ages owned by the
Kulliai Kurds as far as Dinavar, some 15 miles distant. [Burton.)
BALISTS.— , T , TT . . t
•A village in Azerbaijan, 2 miles from the south shore of Lake Urumieh.
Part of the village is built on the slope of a mountain, with walls, and