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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎228v] (461/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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446
KAH-KAI
The inhabitants are Bakhtiaris and a few Dizfulis, and there is one
shopkeeper from Shushtar. The fighting strength fluctuates. At best
there are but 10 to 12 rifles, and in September 1904, when an attack by
Dlrakwand Lur was expected, the place was almost deserted.
Kahung.k belongs to the Bakhtiari Khans and to Agha ’AH Mustaufi
of Dizful. Rice, Jcunjid, mash, wheat, barley, beans and cotton are cul
tivated on the village lands which are irrigated from the Ab-i-Kahunak.
A canal runs out of the stream a few hundred yards above the village and
beyond Kahunak, reaches a group of hamlets called Gumar, which also it
serves. There is a fair supply of water at all seasons of the year, but it is
rather brackish. No transport is procurable at Kahunak except about 50
donkeys. Cattle number about 150 sheep and goats about 60.
There are four shrines here—the imdmzddeh of Bibi-Qulkhan, close
to the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , a Kadamgdh of Hazrat ’Abbas and another of the Imam-
i-Riza, both on the south side of the village and close to it ; and lastly a
Kaiamgdh, called Amir Vazir, | of a mile from the village in the direction
of Shushtar. These shrines arc visited by the surrounding Arabs as well
as by Dizffilis and Shushtaris.
The revenue of Kahunak is paid into the Dizful treasury. With that of
Gumar, it amounts to 1,000 tumdns per annum for crops, except rice,
being assessed, it is said, at the rate of 2 tumdns per plough. Half pro
duce fin kind is paid on account of rice cultivation. The annual cash
assessment of Kahunak, separately, is now (1907) reported to be 318 tumdns.
A flour mill, belonging to the village, which charges customers 1 hr an and
1 Dizfuli man of flour for every 12 Dizfuli man ground, is assessed to
revenue at 500 tumdns & year.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1068.)
KAHUNAK (AB-I-)—
A stream in Northern ’Arabistan, which in the spring brings down a
considerable body of water from the melting snows, but is dry in summer.
It rises in the mountains in Southern Luristan and flows through the plain,
about 10 miles east of Dizful, in several broad channels which form the
western boundary, to the plain of Ah-i-Bid {vide this Gazetteer, Sar-i-Bisheh).
These merge into one deep channel on passing through a low range of
hills, which divides the plains of Kahunak and Ab-i-Bid. A few miles
later, it flows past Kahunak, where the road from Shushtar to Dizfui
crosses it by a brick bridge, and after a farther course of some 18 miles
in a south-westerly direction it flows into the Ab-i-Diz, about 42 miles (by
river) south of Dizful.— {Arbuthnot, 1905.)
KAHUNAK (River)— vide AB-I-DIZ.
KAIAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet of 15 houses of Dinaruni Bakhtiaris at the foot of the Kaleh
Sard mountain, 4 miles west of Deh-i-Diz on the road from Isfahan to ’Ara
bistan ; rocky cliffs rise steeply behind to the west: to the south is a stony
slope covered with oak, running down to the foot of Dehadari mountain.
Corn is grown in small quantities, and the village is deserted from May
to September.— {Burton, 1903.) +

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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