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low range of limestone hills. It contained in 1881 some 15 families and
belonged to Fath ’AH, who had bought it ten years before. The wall of
the fort, which contains about 15 families, at that time was in good repair.—
(Stack.)
KHABIDU—Lat. 28° 24' N. Long. 51° 12' E. Elev.
A village on the coast of the Dashti district of Fars immediately south
of Banju in the Tangistan district. It is the most northern place on the
seaboard of Dashti. It contains a dozen houses inhabited by fishermen and
cultivators of dates and corn.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
KHABR— Lat. 30° 33' N Long. 54° 45' E. Elev. 7,510'.
A village in Kirman near the eastern borders of Fars, 90 miles north of
Bishneh and near the Kuh-i-Khabr. It stands on a low mound in a small
plain, and contains 70 houses with a small dilapidated fort in the centre.
There is a flour mill here with a mill stream of a section 1x4 X 4 flowing
3 miles an hour. The villagers own 100 camels and a f ;W donkeys. ^ Few
supplies are obtainable with the exception of firewood, which is plentiful in
the hills around. Water is obtained from qandts. The village is subject to
attacks from Balus, Bakhtiaris and Arabs, one of which tribes sacked the
village about 1883. From here a road runs to Saidabad, 12 farsakhs (about
40 miles). There are several gardens close by.— (Vaughan, 1S87 — Brazier-
Creagh, 1894.)
KHAFAJlYEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Southern ’ Arabistan on the left bank of the main stream of
the river °Karkheh, several miles to the west of Kut Nahr Hashim. It
contains a bazar of some 90 mud-built shops, and is the se^t of the ruling
family of the Bam Turuf. See Hawizah.—( Pemaw Guli Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHAFR or KHAFR — Lat. 28° 51' N. Long. 53° 17' E. Elev. 4,300'.
A village in Fars, 6 miles north-west of Azimunjird, on the Jehrum—Shiraz
road, lying in a small valley at the foot of a low ridge which forms the eastern
slopes of the Kara Aghach river. Snow never falls. Houses of normal mud
construction. Supplies limited. Water from river 1| miles west, or from
spring in hills yielding plentiful sweet water which flows down through
village. Roads diverge to Kaleh Nau and Sarvistan and to Abadeh or
Jehrum by parallel road. Similar villages are sprinkled over the valley all
round for a radius of six miles.— (Wilson, 1907.)
KHAFRAK ’ULIA—Lat. Long. Elev.
A minor sub-division of Fars, in which Sivand is situated. —(MacGregor.)
KHAFRl—
A small tribe af llidts in Fars, living in the Ardakan district. They
muster 60 to 70 families, speak a Lur dialect, and pay 60 tumdns revenue.
— (Durand.)
KHAIRABAD (1) (River), vide AB-I-SHlRIN.
KHAIRABAD (2)— Lat. 28° 1' N. Long. 58° 42' E. Elev.
Another name of the village Deh Dashtak in Fars (q.v.).