'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎214r] (432/706)

forage used. In autumn and early winter there would be a considerable
quantity found stored for the winter supply of cattle owners ; at other times
very little. In spring and early summer unlimited pasturage would be found
along the edge of the lake basin. Firewood may be procured in large quanti
ties from the gardens and plantations. Carriage is unprocurable save to a
very small extent, there being but few nomads, the export trade being carried
on mostly by carriers from Tabriz. Water is everywhere procurable, either
m small streams flowing from the Sahand or by digging to a depth of 10
or 12 feet. It is of good quality. The climate is most favourable and
healthy.— (Napier.)
MAMAKURA MOUNTAIN—
A lofty mountain forming a triangle with Shafileh and Saraban through
Avhich the Lusha stream flows to the Zimkan river ; along its western slope
runs the valley of Amirabad. The summits of the mountains are bare,
but the lower slopes thickly clothed with grass and trees.— (Burton.)
MAMAN—
The fifth stage on the road from Zinjan to Ardabil, via Aq Kand. It
is m Azarbaijan'. Morier gives no further information about it.—(M or-
ier.)
MAMARN—
A village on the right bank of the Kizil Uzun, 12 miles below Mianeh.
Jt is a large village, overlooked by a fort. Three miles from it there is a
ford over the Kizd Uzun (easy in the beginning of November).—(Afoner*)
MAMASH—
A large section of the Mikri tribe (q. u.), occupying the western portion of
the mountains south of Sauj Bulagh. It descends to the lower Zab valley
m winter and some times crosses the frontier by the Warda pass to the lower
levels about Ru\ anduz. One of the chief towns of the Mamash is Sardasht
on the Lesser ZaL—(Corme, 1910.)
MAMILUN—
A village ontheJajrud river, 19 miles east of Tehran ; the Damavand river
J oin ® ^he Jajrud river i:, its vicinity. Hadavand nomads inhabit it in winter
-— (bchmdler.)
MAMUNIEH—
A village with 300 houses, in the Zarand district, about 56 miles south-
west of lehr an.— (Schindler.)
MAMUSH KAND—
. k vil , la T f e “ north-western Azarbaijan, 24| miles from Khol on
to Kizil Dizeh, and about f mile south of the road.— (Picot, 1894.)
MANDAMI and MANDIMl—
the road
A Kurdish tribe partly residing in the Hobatu buliik of Kurdistan (1902)
MANDARABAD—
A village in Kirmanshah, half-way between As’adabad and Kangavar
and on the Hamadan-Kirmanshah road. It consists of a collection of
twenty or thirty huts round fortified walls, enclosing an ancient tumulus
and covered with storks’ nests.—(Bellew.)