'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎150r] (304/982)

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FAKHRlBll>^LAT. 31° 21* N. Long. 54° 3'. E, Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, 26j§miles byroad, south of Yazd town.
It is situated in a valley between cliffs, 600 yards apart, just below the
junction of the Bavanat and Tizarjan roads. The village contains 100
houses surrounded by cultivation, trees and gardens. Supplies are
available here and plentiful water is to be obtained from a stream.—
(Vaughan, 1890.)
FALLAHIEH TOWN— Lat. 30° 40' N. Long. 48 0 41' E. Elev.
The chief town of the district of the same name in Southern ’Arabistan,
and the capital of the Ka’b tribe. It is almost buried from view
in date-groves, and is situated on both banks of the Fallahieh-Marid
canal about 3 miles below Khazineh, the place where the Jarrahi
river ends and the canal begins. The part of the town on the left bank is
surrounded by a dilapidated stone wall, which encloses as well as houses
a large amount of marsh. Therefore it is not surprising that this is con
sidered the most unhealthy town of ’Arabistan. About 250 mud
houses and 130 shops compose the town. The people are mostly Ka’b
of the Khanafireh division and number about 2,000 souls. Movement is
chiefly by water and the town possesses many hallams. Mahailahs also
come up from Muhammareh by the canal, and there is good water-way con
ducting to Buzieh. The town lands produce abundant dates and rice,
but trade is slack and the hamr is generally closed at noon for want of busi
ness. Lately the power of the Shaikh of Muhammareh .has become ab
solute in Fallahieh .—( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
FALLAHIEH DISTRICT—
The most central of the districts of Southern ’Arabistan, having on the
south-west the district of Muhammareh and on the north the district of
Ahwaz, on the north-east the Jarrahi district, on the south-east Ma’shur
and on the south the Khur Musa and the open sea.
Boundaries. —The border of the district begins on the sea at the mouth
of Khur Silaik and follows that creek to Qubban. Then the boundary is the
Salmanleh canal until some marshes near the Karun are reached ; it then
runs more to the north than before and passes in succession by Maqtfl’ and
’ Ataishi to a locality named Khuwaiseh where there is some rising ground.
The line then turns eastward*and goes by way of Qusaibeh, at the right bank
of the Jarrahi river just below the village of Qarqar. Crossing the river
it continues in a south-easterly and then in a southerly direction. It passes
by ’Aquleh, a spot 8 miles west of Ma’shur, and finally reaches the Khur
Musa near the point where that inlet breaks up into the two Khurs of
Dauraq and Ma’shur.
Physical geography, climate .—The Jarrahi, which runs through the middle
of the district, is bordered by a belt of canal-irrigated cultivation. Outside
this cultivation are at the eastern end of the district flat, alluvial plains,
which are waterless except after rain. On the north of the Jarrahi, on
the borders of the Ahwaz district, there are large swamps both to the east
and the west of Gharaibeh.
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