'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎152r] (308/982)

20 faddans are cultivated. Livestock 30 cattle and 100 sheep and
goats.— [ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
FARlAB (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A stream in Luristan, crossed by the road from Khurramabad to Dizful
[via Mishvand and the Gialan pass), at Birinjzar, the third halting-place,
75 miles from Khurramabad. A few miles below Birinjzar the stream
disappears underground to re-appear at Pul-i-Tang.— [Schindler.)
FARlAB (2) or PARIAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears, under the hills of Khurmuj, 49 miles from Firuzabad,
on the road to Bushire. There is a great deal of swampy ground in the
neighbourhood.— [St. John — Durand. )
FARID AN or FARID UN—
The correct form is Faridan ; in Armenian, Peria.
One of the divisions of the Isfahan province, with an area of 1,000 square
miles, situated at the back of the south-western ridge of the mountains of
Khwansar, consisting of several plains with a mean elevation of 7,800', en
closed by ranges of high mountains. Faridan is entered on the east by the
Isfahan-Burujird road, about 74 miles from Isfahan, near Dumbnai at the
northern end of the Qahlz plateau and on the slopes of the Kuh-i-Dalan, and
extends to the north-west as far as or a little beyond Chehar Chashmeh,
joining the Burbarud district of Burujird. To the west it extends to the
northern slopes of the Zardeh Kuh range, where is situated the Parsisht
plateau with the ruins of Parsisht (a former city ?), called Puasisht by
some. On the north and east Faridan joins the Gulpaigan and Khwansar
districts, on the south the Linjan district.
In it rise the head-waters of one of the principal tributaries of the Zindeh
Rud and those of the Karaj Rud, which flows to Gulpaigan. On its hills
grows the manna-bearing tamarisk [Tamarix mannifera), which supplies
the manna from which the best Isfahan “ Gaz ” is made. The tamarisk in
Persian is gaz, its, manna is gaz Angahin i.e., tamarisk-honey, and the
Isfahan gaz is made of manna, flour, almonds, etc.
Faridan is peopled by Georgians and Armenians brought here by Abbas
the Great in the 17th century and by Bakhtiari. The former, residing in
the Gurji [i.e., Georgian) sub-district (principal place Akhureh-i-bala, with
350 families), and amounting to about 1,000 families, profess the Muhamma
dan faith, but some of them still speak Georgian. The yearly taxes of the
Gurji sub-district with 19 villages, amount to 18,334 Jcrdns. The Armenians
of the Faridan, rather more numerous than the Georgians, occupy 9 villages
(these are government property) altogether and 16 villages partly. They
have about a dozen churches which form part of the Julfa (Isfahan) diocese.
The 9 villages form a separate administrative sub-district, called
Khaliseh Armina Nishin [i.e., state domains where Armenians reside),
and are taxed in the government lists to the amount of 23,621|- Jcrdns
per annum. The Bakhtiari of the district number about 1,200
families; altogether Faridan has a population of about 18,000 to
20,000 souls. The total amount of taxes exacted from the district