'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎309r] (622/706)

TANGID—TANGIM
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TANG-I-DAHI —Elev. 9,620'.
A pass over the Kuh-i-Khunsar, just south of Khunsar. It is crossed
on the road from Khunsar to Dam-i-Kamar on the Isfahan-Burujird road.
For the first 300 yards the mule track is rocky, with gradient T V, and water
flowing down it; it then improves to a 12 -foot track, gradient it at last
becomes very steep |, and divides into two branches, one road leading direct
to Chaman-i-Sultan, the other to Dam-i-Kamar. The latter is t to but
otherwise a good mule track ; hillside softish shale, road easily made. The
peak rises 200 feet above pass. -{Bell, 1884.)
TANG-I-DlNAVAR—
A pass about 37 miles from Kirmanshah on the Tabriz road. It is en
closed by inaccessible cliffs ; 800 to 1,000 feet in height. The defile ap
pears to be 7 miles in length. From a distance the indentations of the
two. flanks of the defile are seen to correspond exactly, each salient being
opposed bv a re-entering angle of equal depth. On the left hand the strata
are inclined at a sharp angle, appearing to have fallen away from the opposite
mass by the subsidence of the earth's crust below.
The Tang-i-Dinavar, though affording an excellent passage through
a very impracticable mass of mountains, would be difficult to traverse m
the face of anvdetermined opposition; its flanks for many miles being
inaccessible, and, when accessible, so flanked by steep scarps as to be nearly
impracticable to direct assault. A detour of about 20 to 30 miles
from Dinavar east over a low pass, crossed with ease by horsemen and
laden camels, to Sinneh, on the high road, turns this defile(xYapter.)
TANG-I-KHALlJl—
4 defile two-thirds of a mile beyond Bijar, Kurdistan on the Tabriz-
Kirmanshah road, The road is tortuous and the rock, which crops up
freely, a hard limestone—(Aapter.)
TANG-I-KHURNAWAZAN— .
4 defile some 24 miles from Kirmanshah, on the road thence to Smne ,
Kurdistan. It lies between the valley of Mian-i-Darband and the plain
of Pusht-i-Darband.— {T. C. Plowden.)
TANG-I-LAMBl—Kiev, 6,620'. ^ x __ _
A small pass about 7 miles from Gulpaigan on the road to Khunsar,
the watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. .between the two valleys. For 50 yards oyer rock the
path is only a mule-path, but improves into a 15-foot road in the Khunsar
valley One of the sources of the Ab-i-Qum passes through this gorge ; it is
here a small stream 8 feet wide in a deep bed, crossed about 1 2 miles from
the defile by a single-arched bridge of 18 feet span. (Bell, 188i.)
TANG-I-MILLEH MURVAIUD— known also as Mailawara, Malavprd and
MilaMawarI. _ _ _ ,
A defile in Kurdistan running north and south between Kamyaran and
Quragh on the Kirmanshah-Sinneh road, through an outlying spy of the
PaZ hills. It is 6 or 7 miles long, and is 8 miles from Kirmanshah. The