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KAKDI—KARIN
houses inhabited by Kalhur Kurds, has no trees, has some crops and cultiva
tion : water from a stream. Supplies: firewood, 300 sheep and goats.—
( Vaughan.) •
KARIM KHANEIT— Elev. 2,600'.
53 miles south-east of Tehran on the east borders of the Daria-i-Namak.
A ruined fort situated on a sandy barren plain, and containing 10 or 12
houses. Two acres of cultivation and 300 sheep and goats. Water from
a stream 2|' broad flowing 30 feet in 42 seconds.— (Vaughan.)
KARIND Bululc .—
Chief place Karind.
The district of Karind is composed of:—
(1) The plain of Karind, in which are the town of Karind and many
villages, such as Harir and Khusrauabad.
(2) The plain of Bivanij containing 14 villages.
The principal village is Shaikhan ; also the following villages :—
Walai (near the Gardaneh Baneban, which is situated between Tushami
and Bivanlj, Chiah Mirakhel, Sartang, Deh-i-Jami, Deh-i-Litfeh
(Litfeh is the Katkhudas name), Deh-i-Ujak-Guli (Ujak Gull
is the Katkhuda’s name), Kanahar, Biameh, Mamali, Birrehshahi,
Kurchibashi, Asiab Tanureh. In all about 400 houses. The
Mdli t of the Bivanij district goes towards paying the expenses
of two companies of the Karind regiment.
(3) Mountain village; such as Rijab (Riz-ab), 150 houses; plenty of
gardens ; mdli t, 450 tum&ns, which go towards paying the expenses
of the band of the Karind regiment.
(4) The plain of Bishaveh, north of Sar-i-Pul, between that place and
Pai Taq. It is the qishldq of the few nomads of the Karind tribe,
and is 6 farsakhs distant from their yailaks. The plain contains
many villages and rice fields.— (Rabino, 1907.)
KARIND—Lat. 34° 16' 59"; Long. 46° 14' E.,
A town in Kirmanshah, 56 miles west of the town of that name and
some 170 miles from Baghdad, on the road between the two places. It is
described by Fraser as grotesquely, rather than picturesquely, placed at
the mouth of the gorge between two precipitous hills. The houses, though
small, are neat and built in terraces on the slopes of the gorge, with the
naked and scarped rock rising abruptly above them. Rich gardens extend
up the defile and along the base of the mountain, which produce a variety
of fruits (including the celebrated stoneless grape known as that of Karind)
which ripens during the end of July and August. The willow and
the lofty poplar attain a considerable size on the margin of a mountain
stream that bisects the village, and is afterwards turned off into smaller
channels for the supply of the gardens in the plain. Several copious springs
issuing from the plain, which is here about 3 miles broad, _add their water to
numerous mountain streams and form the sources of the Ab-i-Karind {q.v.),
the north-west tributary of the Karkheh river. The temperature is very
mild ; when Jones visited it in August the maximum point of the thermo
meter was only 85°. A mild east wind prevails throughout the nights, and
is followed by a refreshing west wind that lasts during the day.