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one end is a Masjid, built right over the water, and at the other the water
escapes by a natural waterfall, and supplies the irrigation of the whole
district. W heat, opium, cotton, grapes, madder and red dye are cultivated;
two looms, carpets; 65,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly.—(Preece.)
IMRANLU—
A Turkish tribe of 50 houses in Mazandaran, living in or round Sari.
(Holmes ; She'll.)
INADBEG—Elev. 4,715 / .
A village 25| miles from Qum, on the road to Burujird via Sultanabad.—
{Schindler, 1877.)
INANLU.—See Shahsavan.
INFARUD—
A stream falling into the Gulf of EnzalT {q.v.).
INJADAN—
A large village, owned by peasent proprietors, 24 miles from Sultana
bad on the road to Kashan. The village, which is celebrated for its red
dye, contains 300 houses, population 1,600 ; there are 250 looms for
carpet-weaving in the place. There are 70 pairs of oxen for tillage ;
72,800 lbs. of grain are sown yearly ; water is from a good spring at the
back of the village ; 200 tv.mans&TQ paid as taxes and 150 tumfins instead
of supplying soldiers. The village lies under some high abrupt hills, with
many gardens and much cultivated ground.— {Preece, 1893.)
INJILAS—
A village on the Ab-i-Yalpan, about 9 miles south-east of Hamadan.—
{Schindler.)
INTARKASH—See AGRIQASH.—
IRA—
A considerable and prosperous village bordering on Mazandaran, situ
ated in the midst of corn fields, on the high and steep cliffs on the’right
bank of the Harhaz. It is a short distance from Ask, on the road to
Firuzkuh. It contains about 200 houses, in fair order, and the inhabitants
are well-to-do.— {Lovett.)
’IRAQ—
By ’Iraq is at present understood the little province bounded bv
Burujird on the west, Gulpalgan on south, Qum on the east and Saveh
{q.v.) on the north and having Sultanabad as the seat of Government.—
* {Schindler.)
’IRAQ-I-’AJAM—
As the name for a province, is now quite obsolete. It used to be the
country bounded by Azarbaijan and Gllan on the north, by Kumish and
the central Persian desert on the east, by Kirman, Fars and Khuzistan
on the south and by Traq-i-’Axab and Kurdistan on the west. Its length
was about 480 miles from the Kizil Uzun river to Yazd, its width about
400 miles from Gilan to Khuzistan, and it comprised the following districts