'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎338r] (680/706)

There are no trees. Crops and eultivation ; good grazing ; firewood scarce.
Water plentiful from a stream ; supplies : 50 cows 300 sheep and goats.
Roads run from here to Juanrud and Kirmanshah, distant 19 and 36 miles
respectively .—(V aughan.)
ZARIN chashmeh—
Or the plain of the “ Golden Fountain,” is a high and beautifully green
pi in, with abundance for pasturing cattle, mares and mules. It is situated
e .st of the Zardeh Kuh range, in the west of the Chahar Mahall district, due
west of Isfahan.— (Stack.)
zar Injur—
A village in Kurdistan in the BiUwar district 8 farsakhs south of Smandlj.
(1902.)
ZARKAU—E lev. 4,500'.
A hamlet of small huts, by a ravine, ten miles west of Panjvm on the road
to Mama Kulan in western Kurdistan. (Gerard.)
ZARNEH—Elev. 8,240/
A vill ,ge on the road from Isfahan to Burujird, 102 miles from the former
7 miles from Kh-Vgan. It is on the watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. of that part of Persia. Fruit
ful corn-fields and pasture everywhere. Snow lies from November to April.
It is Government property ; inhabitants, mainly Armeni; —(Schindler.)
ZARNEH MOUNTAIN— ^
A hill of Persian Kurdistan about 35 miles north-west of Kirmansnah,
on the road from Sinneh to Juanrud. To the north it slopes down to the
plain of ShamI, and the valley of Kara] an runs below the cliffs, terminat
ing its south-west slopes, which here form a table-land, the mountain peaks
rising above it to the north. The summits of the hill are bare and rocky,
but the dopes are g ntle, and contain much grass and many springs : its
sides are clothed with the remains of oak forest and bushes.
The Kurds of the tribe of ’Abdur Rahman Beg pasture their flocks and
herds on Zarneh during the summer months, also the Kurds of the adjacent
vill .ges.— (Burton.)
ZARREH— Elev. 5,180/
A vill ge on the road between Ham?'dan and Tehran, about 142 miles from
the latter and 14 from the former. There are no trees or cultivation here.
Being infested with bugs, travellers go 1| miles further to Kushejeh and
stay there. A Persian Government Telegraph Office here.—(Tm/Zor ;
Rozario.)
ZARZA—
A tribe of Kurds living in Azarbaijan.
ZAULU—
Two small villages, totalling 30 houses, standing near the left bank of the
Barasha stream | mile below where it is crossed by the road from Kaleh