'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎208r] (420/706)

LUABUSH—
A wide valley in Kurdistan, crossed at 28 miles, from Faki Sulaiman
on the road to Kirmanshah.— [Gerard.)
LULAN PASS (TANG-I-LULAN)—
Buns north-east from the north-east corner of the Kinisht valley, and
is traversed by the road from Kirmanshah to Sinneh, via Kandula, the
south entrance being 11 miles from Kirmanshah and its length to the saddle
at its top being 3|- miles.
The entrance is 300 yards wide between the Kinisht and Parau mountains
which rise precipitously to either hand.
The pass is throughout steep, rough and stony, there is a quantity of
fuel in the shape of bushes and scrub ; no water exists at the beginning of July,
when the snow on the mountains has melted.
The saddle at the top of the pass (height 6,290') is rocky, bare and open;
the hills sloping on either hand_up to precipitous peaks one mile apart;
the northern descent to Zalu-Ab is gentle and traverses a bare valley!
The south ascent is just practicable for laden animals. The pass cannot
be turned by an adjacent road.— [Burton.)
LtfN—Elev. 5,810' LAHUN.
A village of Saiyids standing at the head of a valley draining from the
north side of the Zameh mountain along the eastern base of the Shahu
range to the Shirvan river. The inhabitants are the descendants of Saiyids
who migrated from Turkey 60 years ago (1830), and were granted lands
by the Wall of Kurdistan. The valley of Lun is broad and cultivated
and well-watered by streams from Zarneh. The people, who number 100
houses, own large flocks and herds. Wood is plentiful on the Zarneh
mountain and Shahu range.— [Burton.)
LUN AKHUN—Elev. 5,910'
A hamlet of 15 houses, an offshoot of Lun. It stands to the south of
the Sinneh-Juanrud road where it crosses a spur from Zarneh about 2 miles
before reaching Lun, to the west. No trees and little cultivation, the
people are employed ii grazing cattle and sheep on the upper slopes of the
mountains.— [Burton.)
LUNIA—
A village between Kudbar and Rustamabad, in the Safid Rud valley
and to the left of the Kazvln-Rasht [Schindler.) *
LURU—
A village in Azarbaijan, within 2 miles of Onar, about a mile to the left
of the road from Tabriz to Astara by Ahar. It stands embayed between
two points of the high land which here abruptly descends many hundred
feet into an extensive plain, covered with gardens and villages.- (Todd *
Holmes ; MacGregor.)