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and goats and numerous cattle and horses. This locality is very healthy,
and there is an excellent camping-ground. Near here Lieutenart Stotheid’s
party was attacked in 1893. Wells says that a road leads from heie
through Qawam ’All (Khwaja Jamall) to Shahr-i-Babak. This village is
known as Abadch-i-Tashk and produces wheat, barley, beans and opium
in winter sowings ; green almonds, pomegianates and some giapes as
summer sowings.— {Felly ; Ross ; Wells ; Stotherd, 1893).
ABADEH-I-TASHK—
A small district of Ears, north-east of Shiraz, on the northern shore of
Lalm Bakhtagan. It is bound'd on the east by the districts of Niriz and
Bavanat, on the north by the districts of Sarchahan and Qunquri, on Ihe
W( st by the district of Kurbal, and on the south by Lake Bakhtagan.
It produces pulse, wheat, barley, opium, sesame, cotton, pomegranartes,
almonds and grapes. It contains the following villages:—
Abadeh. Tashk.
Chah Diraz. ’Ulia.
Husainabad. Kushkak.
Khwaja Jamali, Deh-u-Dashtak, a name given to the 2 villages of
Husainabad and ’Ulia.— (Fdrs Ndmeh-i-Ndsirl, 1895).
IBADI— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,780'.
A small village on the Zindeh Rud, 22 miles from Imamzadeh Isma’il,
surrounded by poplars, vines, and fields of wheat and barley,— (M.)
'ABAD ILLAHl— Lat. 30° 10' 50" N. Long. 49° 39' 30" E. Elev.
A village in Southern Arabistan, on the right bank of the river Hindis n,
2 miles south-west of Gaz ’All. It is inhabited by 150 Bahrakun Arabs’
who grow grain and own 10 horses, 40 cattle, 40 donkeys and 1,000
sheep. A track runs from here to Bandar Ma’shur—(Eombn Devt.
Gazetteer, 1905.) y ^
ABANDANAN—
A river of Khuzistan, which rises in the hills of the Lur tribe of Sag wand,
and falls into the Dawarij in the lower part of the small plain of Batak.
(Layard.)
ABARAJ—
A hilly district of Ears, north of Shiraz. It has two divisions, one called
Dashtak containing many gardens and springs ; and a fort said to be the
coolest spot in Ears. The other division is called Shahrak, and consists
of two or three villages producing only wheat and barley. Ross adds that
the district produces corn and grapes also.
It contains the following villages :—
Hisamabad.
Hisar.
Dashtak.
Shahrak.
Qasr Khalil.
Gul Mian.
{Felly ; Ross \ Fdrs Ndmeh-i-Ndsirl.)