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KUS—KUS
KUSHK!—'
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan {q.v.).
KtSHK-I-Bl-NAZlR (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, near Barm-i-Dalik, in the neighbourhood of Shiraz.—
(Durand.)
KUSHK-I-MAULA —Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village in Ears, lying east-south-east of Shiraz and reached shortly
before passing Darian (or Darina) on the road to Niriz.
It has a guest-house with an upper storey. Revenue 3,000 tumans.—
(Dobbs, 1903.)
KUSHK-I-ZARD— Lat. 30° 48' 44"; Long. 52 0 24 / . Elev. 7,800'.—(Erazer.)
A plain in Ears, adjoining that of Ujan. It is in breadth about 15 miles
and in length about 150. The soil is black loam, fertilised with numerous
springs of good water, and the ruins of towers, villages and palaces prove
that the nomads were not always permitted to monopolise what might,
with truth, be denominated the garden of Persia.
There is a range of mountains to the south called by this name also.
Height of a peak 11,300 feet. Large masses of snow here, on the northern
slopes, in July. Hill-top (of one of the spurs) a table-land nearly. The
fall is precipitous to north.
Kushk-i-Zard is the 7th stage on the Shiraz-Isfahan road via Asupas
and is 21 miles north of the last. It is a walled and castellated village
attached to a ruined serai, and is said to contain about 120 houses, of which
only half, according to native reports, are inhabited. The inhabitants
are of llidt origin and possess about 50 rifles. Supplies nil ; water plentiful;
camping-ground for a brigade—(Kinneir—Durand—Grahame, 1908.)
KtJSHKU (1) —Lat. SO^l'N. Long. SS^S'E Elev. 4,661'.
A village in Kirman, 93 miles from the town of that name, on the road to
Yazd. It is the head of a small district of the same name, and contains,
besides a fort, a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and a chdpdr khdneh, some 200 houses with
about 800 inhabitants.' It is supplied with sweet water from a qandt.
Ine district of Rushkii consists of 20 small villages and hamlets, with an
District, aggregate of some 700 houses. It pro
duces annually 65,000 mans of wheat
and barley, 23,500 mans of cotton, and some millet and vegetables.
The mdlidt is 1,200 tumdns.—(Preece, 1892 -Wood, 1899.)
KUSHKU (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 30 houses, some 100 miles north-west of Lingeh. Livestock
a 16 : 30 donkeys, 40 cattle, 1,000 sheep and goats. Good water from a
spring. Revenue : 100 tumdns.—(Sher Jang, 1902.)
KUSUK River—
A river of Ears crossed by a 2-arched brick bridge 3 miles before reaching
Qadamgah, on the road from Tashk to Shiraz.— (Preece, 1892.)