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The plain is broad and cultivated, and the stream which drains it runs
through the village, which has some fine groves of trees. Grass is abun
dant, and a considerable number of goats, sheep, and cattle are owned.
There is no firewood near. Supplies, and room for camping ; the plain
between this and Harsin being most suitable for that purpose for troops.
The people number 30 houses, of which 20 are Lurs and the rest Harsin
Kurds.— {Burton.)
KAHRlZAK—
A small village, the first posthouse on the new road to Qum situated in
the valley of the same name, 10 miles south of Tehran on the road to
[ Isfahan. A large sugar factory An East India Company trading post. has been built here with Belgian capital.
There are many other villages among poplars and walled gardens in the
valley, which is well cultivated. There is a camping ground for troops
near the caravansarai, or on the ridge above.— {Trotter ; Sykes.)
The village has 50 houses. The sugar factory An East India Company trading post. ceased work in 1899.
The distance from the post house to Tehran is 12f miles.
KAHRIZ YAKAIN—
A village of 700 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, about 5 miles
south-east of Avoglu in the Khar Dasht plain.— {Picot, 1894.)
KAIGACH—
A village in Azarbaijan on the Aras, the winter quarters of some of
the Milan Kurds. A short distance beyond the village are the foundations
of an extensive Armenian ruin. The foundations are of cut limestones
taken from a low ridge close by. About 2^ miles west of the village are
remains of two bridge piers at a spot where the river narrows to 30 yards,
Kaigach is row of no importance. A Cossack post is stationed in the neigh
bourhood.— {Picot, 1894.)
KAILAGULAN—Elev. 5,925'.
Kurdish village of 50 houses in the upper end of large cultivated valley
running from east to west into the Gaveh river, Persian Kurdistan, some
miles above its junction with the the Sinneh river. The road from Kan-
dula (Kirmanshah) to Sinneh passes by the village. There is abundant
water ; a number of willow trees ; the plain round is entirely under cul
tivation, level and sloping gently up to mountains which are bare of trees,
but with many springs of water and grass. A large number of cattle,
sheep and goats are owned.— {Burton.)
KAILUN—
A halting place, three stages from Tehran, on the road thence to Firfiz-
kfih and Sari, from the former of which it is about 45 miles distant.—
{Ouseley.)
KAIMAN—
A village in Azarbaijan between Sauj Bulagh and Tabriz, with lanes of
orchards about it. {Gerard.)
KAINAL or KINAL KUH— Elev. 6,620'.
A mountain ridge in the Malayar district crossed between Nahavand and
Daulatabad. It is 6 miles north-east of Nihavand.— {Schindler.)