'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎169r] (342/706)

During 1911 and 1912, as well as for some years previously, Khoi had
been the object of much jealousy between Turkey and Russia, la March
1911 there were 6 mountain guns and 3 battalions of Turkish troops dis
tributed along the Khoi-Urumieh road. In June of that year a commis
sion consisting of Mr. Shipley (British representative ^and M. Mmorski Rus
sian representative) examined this frontier with reference to Turkish e
croachments. _ , -.i t
In November 1911 a Russian Consulate General, wdh a large escort
(4,000) was sent to Khol to safeguard Russian interests. Turkey was
obliged to withdraw. , , ^ ,
Mr M P. Price who visited Khol in October 1912 reported that officers
quarters and a church were being built, that a wireless station had been erect
ed and that the road from Julfa to Khoi was being used by motors.
He estimated the Russian garrison at 9,000 to 10,000 of all arms.
Although a rich agricultural district, if the artificial irrigation channels
did not exist, the land would be a desert. As
Resources. ^ pjQ(4uces great quantities of corn, fodder,
cotton, rice, all sorts of fruits and European vegetables ; wheat and barley
are the predominent cereals. Wood is scarce as the surrounding hills are
more or less treeless ; all other supplies plentiful.— {Picot, 1894.)
KHORA—
A small village about 21 miles north-north-west of Khoi —(If. 0. Report
on Persia, Part II, Route 238.)
KHUDA-ABAD— T # v. -
A village a few miles beyond Nasirabad on the road from Yazd to Isfahan,
belonging to Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim, Yazir, and containing four houses,
only ; 60 mam (780 lbs.) of grain are sown yearly ; two jaribs are watered
in 24 hours by kandt. No taxes are paid, the village being quite new.
—{Preece, 1892.)
KHUDABANDEH— Vide Sultanieh.
KHUDABANDEHLU— -r nr
A small tribe numbering 500 families, whose chiefs are Abdur Rahim
Khan, ’All Akbar Khan and Khalil Khan. They extend from Sahneh to
^The Khans of this tribe are said to be proprietors of 23 villages or ham
lets. The Khudabandehlus are responsible for the revenue direct to the
Accountant’s Department of Kirmanshah. _ f c) , x
There is also a sub-district of this name, which is part of bahneh.
(Rabino, 1907.)
KHUDAFARIN—contracted form of Khuda-afarin.
A village on the Aras ; there is a bridge over the river here, and a Persian
Government Telegraph Office.
A village in Azarbaijan, 71f miles on the road from Tabriz to Kir-
n anshah It has 50 houses and lies on the cultivated plain which ex
tends to the shore of a lake distantly miles.—(IT. 0. Report on Persia,
Part II, Route 242.)