'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎117r] (238/706)

' HASANAB—HASANAQ 2 2 1
has a number of groves of willows, poplars and fruit trees. The water is
plentiful and good from kdriz, streams and springs. Above the village
tne valley is narrow and is cultivated and has trees and orchards some
way up : at the village it is | mile broad and opens out below to a culti
vated plain sloping to right bank of Qishlaq stream.
Above and to the south rises a bare hill, steep, and 800 feet above the
village ; on it are the remains of the old castle, which was for centuries a
stronghold of the princes of Ardalan. It was destroyed by order of Shah
Safi (3) together with the castles of Palangan, Zalan and Marlvan in 1635
m order not to serve as a safe refuge for future rebellious rulers of Kur
distan. {Schindler, 1902.)
There is ample room for camping ground : the hills are bare of trees •
the grazing is good and the people own numbers of cattle, sheep and goats!
One hundred and fifty houses ; the village is the property of a Sinneh
merchant Habibullah (1897).— {Vaughan.)
HASANABAD (14)—
. A village in Kirmanshah about 28 miles north-west of that city and
situated on the right bank of the Kara Sa just above its junction with
the Ab-i-Mark. It contains about 20 houses inhabited by Kurds ; no
trees ; crops, cultivation and good grazing ; supplies : 60 cows, 200 sheep
and goats.— (Vaughan.) r
HASANABAD (15)—
A village in Kirmanshah about 22 miles. north-west of Kirmanshah
city on the right bank of the Kara Su. It contains about 30 houses in
habited by Zanganeh Kurds, trees and cultivation, water from wells good
grazing. Supplies: 60 cows, 350 sheep and go&ta.—{Vaughan)
HASANABAD (16)—
. A village in Kirmanshah about 40 miles north-west of Kirmanshah
city. It contains about 20 houses inhabited by Jafs ; there are no trees
Crops and cultivation, good grazing, firewood scarce. Supplies : 70 cows'
600 sheep and goats ; water plentiful from a stream running into the'
Kara Su, the village being on its left h&nk.—(Vaughan)
HASANABAD RIVER—
• It ^ 1Se ^ in 1 the 7 alley nortl1 of Sinneh, flowing past that town and join
ing the Gaveh-rud. Near its confluence with the latter it is a large stream
unfordable except m places, but fordable everywhere above Husainabad
and Sinneh. The river is better known as the Qishlaq river, it traverses
the Husainabad buluk.
HASANANLU—
This is a very large tribe of northern Kurds, who call themselves ‘ Kur-
man] and speak the language so called. Some of the Hamidieh regiments
were recruited from this tribe. Its nomads do not descend to the Persian
plains, but the horsemen make raids on villages in Persian territorv TIip
tribe is Sunni.—(£oawe, 1910.)
HASANAQA—
A collection of hute of Bilbas in the Lahijan district of Azarbaljan, about
32 miles south of Sauj Bulagh on the road to Sardasht.— (Traim.)