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BAQ—BAR
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A village of 100 houses about 4 miles on the right bank of the Shahrud
Damghan road, between the latter town and Deh Mulla. It is 214 miles
from°Tehran and 20 miles from Deh Mulla. Near Baq are indistinct traces
of ruined walls and domes, the remains of the ancient city of Damghan,
supposed to have been destroyed by the Arabs. A quarter of a mile east ol
village there is a large mound.— (Bdlew; Napier; Schindler.)
BlQIRABAD, also called Yakilieh—
A village on the road from Tehran to Q m at about 5 miles S. S. W. of
Shah ’Abdul ’Azim, 22 houses.— (Rabino, 1899.)
BARA DOST see BIRA DOST—
BARAAN—
One of the nine bulNk of Isfahan province; 240 square miles, on both
sides of the river east of Jai and Kararaj. Principal villages ; Kabutar-
abad, Zlar, Barsian, Jozdan.— {Schindler.)
BARAK—
The old name of Amanabad, the well-known haunt of robbers between
Yazdikhast and Maqsudbegl on the Sluraz-Isfahan road.— {Schindler.)
baramawar—
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bilawar valley, about 32 miles
north of Kirmanshah city.
It contains 12 houses, inhabited by BTlawarl Kurds, and has crops and cul
tivation. Water from a stream. Supplies—120 sheep and gouts.—{Vaughan.)
BARANDUZ—
A river of Azarbaijan rising in the Zagros mountains, which, after a
first northerly, then easterly, course past the village of Uladi, enters the
Lake of Urumieh from the south-west.— {Ainsworth ; St. John.)
BARANG or BORNIJ—
A village in Azarbaijan, one stage east of Tabriz on the road to Aslanduz.—
{Morier.)
BARANLU—
A stream met with 17 miles from Urumieh on the road to Sauj Bulagh.
It is just fordable at this point, and a little lower down at the village Sar-
daru tli ere is a brick bridge, with four arches. The Baranlu falls into
the lake of Urumieh.— {Gerard.)
BAR AS ALA VALLEY—
Drains from the Barza plain, Kirmanshah, in a south-east direction, the
stream crossing the Baghdad-Kirmanshah road at Salarabad. At its head
is the village of Jaluan, grassy and well watered; the surrounding mountains
contain much oak forest.— {Burton.)
BARASHA STREAM—
Rises under the rocky range of Aftab-i-Bars, and flowing through the
Biama valley, falls after a short course of 9 miles, into the Zimkan river.
It is crossed midway by the road from Kaleh Zangir to Gahvareh, miles
from the former. There is a small stream of water only during the sum
mer months.— {Burton.)