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mnd huts, built on, and about, a mound on the right (west) side o! valley,
which is here about 6 to 8 miles broad. A beaten road leads to Shiraz.
From here a road goes to Shiraz, distant 8 stages , or 160 miles, 5th June
* 1884.—(M.)
FALA-VARJAN, vide PUL-I-VARGtTN.
FALMAR— Lat. Long Elev.
A village between Pul-i-Gurg and Cham Buraki, Fars, north of Shiraz.
There is much water about it.— {Durand.)
FALGNABAD —Lat. $$ Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Kirman, 47 miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Saidabad.— {Napier, 1899.)
FAMtlR— Lat. 29 o 30 / N Long.51 o 50’ E Elev. 2,700°.—(&. John.)
A lake in Ears, about 13 miles south-east of Kazarun and 45 miles wes v
of Shiraz. It is a long, narrow sheet of fresh water, stretching north
west and south-east, about 3£ miles long by half to one mile broad. On
its south side it is very shallow, but it is said to be beyond a man’s depth
in the centre. It occupies the north ride of a beautiful vale, bounded
by lofty and rocky mountains on both hands, and is fed on its south-east
extremity, where the village of Famurris situated. There is excellent
grazing on the banks of the lake, which is sometimes known as the
Daria-i-Parishan.— {McGregor — Abbott.)
FANl (KHUZISTAN)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass in the mountains to the north-east of Chaman-i-Gaz, on the road
between Dizful and Khurramabad.— {Schindler.) See Ab-i-Fani.
FAQlH HAS AN AN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Fare, 13 miles south-south-west of Khfir-
muj town on the western side of the Khurmuj valley. It contains 70f
houses of Ruuseh, Faqlha and Jatul.'— {Persian Gvlf Gazetteer, 1908.)
FARA DUMBEH— Lat. 32° 3' N. Long. 51°20' E. Elev. 7,250'.
A large village in the Chehar Mahal district, situated about 6 miles west of
and in the same plain or valley as Burujan. It consists of 1,000 houses at
the south-east end of a low, rocky spur, coming down from the mountains
on the west. The houses are mostly in a ruinous condition, but some defen
sive walls and corner flanking towers still remain. Here also is the
large, fort-like house of the eldest son of Haji Qull Khan, the ex-Ilbegi of
the Bakhtiaris. It is well built with lofty wells and corner towers, 30 feet high.
The upper half is loopholed. It has a spring of water inside. The village
owns some 30,000 sheep and goats. Water is obtained from
irrigation channels coming from the east. There are also some qandt*
from the hills to the west. Some miles to the north-east is a
garden, also watered by qandts which cross the plain between Fara Dum-
beh and Safiid Dasht. Fuel from mountain scrub on the elopes roun d
the valley.— {Burton t 1903; Morion, 1905.)
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