'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎91r] (186/706)

GABR—
The name of the members of the Zoraastrian religion in Persia. They are
well known under the name of Parsis in India. The Gabrs in Persia number
about 10,000 residing principally in Kirman, Yazd, 22 neighbouring
villages, and Tehran. It may be mentioned that the Gabrs, or fire-worship
pers, of Yazd deal chiefly in opium. They have stone towers where they
expose their dead. Chan and Mubarak villages, about 8| miles from Yazd,
are inhabited by Gabrs. ’Aliabad near Taft, also, is one of their chief vil
lages, and they own 200 out of its 1,000 houses.— {MacGregor ; Stack.)
GABRABAD—
A ruined village with an old caravansarai, 18 miles from Kashan, on the
high road to Isfahan, viz. Kuhrud.
A mile south of Gabrabad is the celebrated Band-i-Kuhrud, damming
up the river to irrigate the Kashan plain.— (Schinlder.)
GACH—
A village in Yazd 13 miles from town of that name on the road to
Ardakan.— {Gibbons.)
GACHINEH—
A small village in SIlakhur-i-Bala, 6 miles south-west from Burujird.—
{Schindler.)
GACHISAR—
A small village just south of the frontier of Mazandaran, 30 miles north of
Tehran. It is the last spot, at which any trees grow towards Yaliabad. Coal
is said to exist near Gachisar and to be carried to Tehran. The village is
on the Laura stream, which here bends from east to south.— {Lovett.)
GADAN GALMAZ Also called KUH-I-NAMAK {q.v.) —properly “ Kuh-i-
Gatdun-galmag ” (You go and don’t come, mountain.)
A hill about 9 miles north-west from Qum. “ Gaddn Galmaz are
Turkish words, which have the mysterious import of “ those who go
never return.” The hill is also called the Kuh-Talism, or the Talismanic
hill, and is variously described by the natives. Some said that many who
have attempted to explore it have never been heard of; but others less
credulous assured us that though such had been the feeling many years
ago, yet in later days it has been traversed in all directions, and that men
came from it as safe as from any other hill. It would seem that it consists
of a tract almost entirely composed of nitre, which crumbles so easily under
foot, particularly after rain, that it is dangerous to walk over it.— {Morier.)
GADAR CHAl—
A stream in the south-west of Azarbaijan. It rises in the Kurdistan
range south-west of Ushnu and flows in an easterly direction immediately
south of that town through the Sulduz into Lake Urumieh.— {Rawlinson;
Ainsworth,, Gerard.)
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