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Administration. —Bandar Rig is the residence of Haidar Khan, the heie-
ditary local Government of the Haiat Baud district. The system of ad
ministration is described in the article on that district, vide this Gazetteer.
The Imperial Persian Customs established an official here with two subor
dinates about 1904.— (Petty — Bell — Curzon, 1889 ; MacGregor, 1895 ,
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
BANDAR SHUZA—La*. 26° 49' N. Long. 56° 10' E.
A bay on the coast of Q shm, 12 miles from the point of Qishm. To
the west it is fronted by two or three rocky islands, on the largest of which
there is a reservoir for water. Inside there is a fatnom and a half, and
2 fathoms at low tide ; native vessels take shelter here in blowing weather.
The village of Shuza, where a few cattle and poultry may be procured, is
2 miles farther to the west.— (Brucks — St. John.)
BANDAR UN (Kirman)— Lat. 31° 21' N. Long. 54° 58' E. Elev.
A small village near the boundary between Yazd and Kirman, 44 miles
from the former, on the road to Bandar Abbas. (MacGregor.)
BANDARDZ—Lat. 29° 13' N. Long. 51° 14' E. Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears, 3 miles south of Borazjftn,
containing 50 houses inhabited by Borazjunls. The villagers grow wheat
and barley, and own 150 donkeys.'— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
BAND-I-AHWAZ— Lat. 31° 21'30"N. Long. 48° 45' 45" E. Elev.
A dam across the river Karun in Khuzistan. It was built on one of
four ledges of sandstone, which cross the river at this point for the purpose
of keeping up the water to fill the canals for irrigation purposes. At the
west end of it is an opening of about 40 yards broad, and through this
(with the'exception of the water which finds its way over the small p iaces
where the dam is worn by time or broken away), the whole of the river,
here about 200 yards broad, rushes with a tremendous fall and velocity.
This dam stayed the further course of the Euphrates, one gamers
of Colonel Chesney’s expedition in 1836, but m March 184^ Lieutenan
Selby of the Indian Navy, in the Assyria, passed safely through and pro
ceeded up the river to within a few miles of Shushtar. For fuller informa
tion see Ahwaz.-—(Bayard— Chesney Selby.)
BAND-I’ALI— Lat. 27° 9' N. Long. 56° 12' E.
A ruined serai and cistern, the latter in good repair, but dry in March 1907
94 miles west of Bandar ’Abbas on the road to Lai.—(Wilson and
CruicJcshank, 1907.) '
BAND-I-DUKHTAR— Lat. 31° 42' N. Long. 48° 57' E. Elev.
A ruined dyke on the Gargar river in Khuzistan, about 6 miles above
Band-i- Qlr.—(Baring.)
BAND-I-FARRASH— Lat. 28° 50' N. Long. 52° 47' E. Elev.
The name of the remains of a massive stone wall m Ears across the mouth
of the pass reaching into the plain of Farrash Band from the direction o
Shiraz.— (Taylor.)
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