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signifies: The Workers.” In length the cleft is 300 yards, in breadth 15,
in depth 50. The crest of the hill has been cloven across. The work begun
by Shah Abbas the Greit in the beginning of the last century was carried on
by his successors until the downfall of the Safavi dynasty. Others, however,
say that the work was discontinued because the workmen came upon a vein
of flint which they could not get through. The rock is free stone above and
flint below. On the top of the hill, the quarried stones are symmetrically
piled, and all the upper part of its face is covered with chippings. Ruins of
stone houses, built by the workmen or the overseer, are still standing —
{Stack.) 5
KARLAUN—
A village in Azarbaijan between Ardabil and Namin, the second sta^e
from Astara to Tabriz.—(TF. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 236.)
KARMAJAGAN or KARMAZAJAN—
A large village of 120 houses in the Kurdistan sub-division of Qum 2
miles above Bidhand, with very extensive gardens. It is the last village
in the Bidhand valley which continues 6 miles further south to the boun
dary of the Task district. Seven small mosques, a bath and 4 Imamzadehs.—
{Schindler.)
KARMAK or KARMAHEN—
A village in Qum district, south of the town of Qum, in the sub-district of
Ardahal (q.v.).—{Keith ; Abbot.)
KARTlLABAD—
A village in the Malayar district; 9| miles from Daulatabad towards
Nihavand. Many ruins ; no gardens.—
KARU—
A halting-place in Mazandaran, between Parus and Ask, on the road
from Amul to Tehran. There are some caves here cut out of the gravel
banks in the valley of the HarLaz, but no supplies are to be procured. -
{Napier.) On the road to Astarabad, 105 miles from Tehran.— {T. D W O )
KARUSEH—
A village, 39 miles east by north of Isfahan and about a mile from Fishark.
It is a pretty spot, with cultivated land and trees round it, covering a con
siderable space.— {Abbott.)
KARVAN—
One of the nine buluk of the province of Isfahan, situated north of Lanjan
containing 780 square miles, watered by the Murghab. It is divided into
Upper and Lower Karvan.
Upper Karvan has the following villages:—Dehak, Alavi and Hasan
Lower Karvan has Tirun and kbk&i&n.—{Schindler.)
KARZABAR—
A village in Khamseh, on the Zinjaneh Rud, 17 miles below Zinjan.—
{Schindler.)
KASHA—
The name of a peak in the Zagros mountains, Kurdistan, about 30 miles
east of Sulaimanieh, about 12,000 feet high..—{Gerard.)
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