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and is about f of a mile west of the Mahidasht-Harunabad road. It has a few
trees, some crops and cultivation ; water from a stream ; supplies, firewood,
600 sheep and goats. Chah Zowar Bala is about 2^ miles south of the other
village, and is situated in a narrow valley by the side of the road from
Kirmanshah to Baghdad, via Mahidasht and Harunabad. It contains about
ten houses, and has a couple of water-mills ; also a few clumps of trees. A
plentiful supply of water from springs and streams ; firewood, 300 sheep and
goats. A battalion could camp north of the village, but a large force should
camp lower down in the vicinity of the lower village. There is excellent
grazing around both places. It is about 23 miles by road from here to
Kirmanshah and 15 miles to Harunabad.— {Vaughan.)
CHEHIL AMIRAN—
A village of thirty houses, with a mud fort, 7f miles beyond Bijar, on
the Tabrlz-Kirmanshah road.— (Napier.)
CHEHIL NA BALIGHAN—
A noble chain of mountain in Luristan bounding the plain of Alishtar
(between Khurramabad and Kirmanshah) on the east, and dividing
Alishtar from the territories of Nahavand and Burujird. The skirts of
these mountains are covered with villages, and around them is much
cultivation.— (Rawlinson.)
CHEHIL SITUN (or the 40 pillars)—
A palace in Isfahan, situated in a vast space intersected with canals
and planted with trees. The saloon opening on the garden is a mass of
mirrors with a painted ceiling ; thence, through an arched recess studded with
mirrors, the main hall is reached. This is a large domed and painted
room with six large paintings on the walls. For details, see Lord Curzon s
“ Persia ”, Volume II, pages 32—36.
CHEHR— Elev. 4,380'. .
A village of one hundred houses of Zanganeh Kurds. It stands about a
mile from the left bank of the Gamasiab river where the plains south of
the rock of Bisitun run up to bare mountains.
Through it runs the Harsin road 20 miles from Kirmanshah. Water
is very plentiful and there is much cultivation. Some fine poplar groves
and vineyards lie to the south-east of the village. There is good grazing
and large flocks are owned. There is no wood in the vicinity, the adjacent
mountains being quite bare or trees. The village is the property of the
major of the Kurdish Zanganeh regiment of Zahir-ul-Mulk —(Burton.)
CHIA ALLAI— . . . i r ,
A village in Kirmanshati, 15 miles m a straight Ime south-west from
Kirmanshah city, on the Mahidasht plain and on the bank of the Ab-i-Mark.
It contains 10 to 15 houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds ; no trees. Crops,
cultivation ; good grazing ; 150 sheep and goats. Water from the river.—
(Vaughan).
CHIA ANGILISE— , ,,
A village in Kirmanshah about 23 miles west of that city and on tne
Mahidasht plain. It is situated at the foot of a high white hillock and