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MAA—MAD
MA’ALLEH—
A sub-section of the Al Kathir tribe (q. v. ).
MA’AMAREH—
A stretch of date-groves on the west shore of ’Abbadan Island, along the
Shatt-ul-’Arab, 6 miles in length. It contains some 150 scattered huts
inhabited chiefly by Nassar.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MABAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan occupied by the Humaid tribe of 500 families
tributary to Muhammareh.— {Ross.)
MACHAHlL, vide SHlBKUH (Ports).
MADABAD— Lat. 28° 45' N.; Long. 53° 42' E. ; Elev.
A village in south-east Ears, 37| miles from Jehrum, on the road thence
to Fasa. It lies in the Fasa plain and is enclosed in a square of mud
walls.— (Stotherd, 1893.)
MADAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Mashhad-i-Murghab valley in Fars, close to the ruins of
Persepolis.— {MacGregor. )
MADAR-I-SHAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). partly in ruins on the Qehiz plateau, on the road from
Isfahan to Burujird, 65| miles from the former. There are 5 soldiers here
to guard the road to Dur.— {Schindler—Cuningham.)
MADAR-I-SULAIMAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
It is inhabited by Iliats, who only remain there in the winter. It is a
wretched dirty place, —built out of marble blocks, obtained from the
neighbouring ruins of Pasargadse.
MADAR-I-SULAIMAN (TAKHT-I-) —Lat. 30° 12' N. ; Long. 53° 13' E.;
Elev. 6,000'.
A hamlet of 50 mud huts, in the province of Fars, situated on a plain at
the southern extremity of which runs the river Pulvar. It is historical
as the burial place of Cyrus the Great, the son of Cambyses (about
B. C. 520). The building, which undoubtedly was his resting-place, is also
claimed to have been that of Solomon’s mother, as well as that of Cyrus
the younger (by Xenophon). It is situated at a short distance to the
north-east of the village, and is built on a platform with seven successive
tiers about 45 feet square at the base. The building itself, now falling into
ruins, is a small fabric of great blocks of white limestone, with a pedimented
roof : its total height being about 36 feet. The ground about it is thickly
strewn with Mussulman graves. Arlan’s reference to the Tomb of Cyrus
and the visit thereto of Alexander in 324 B. C. is interesting. He describes
the surroundings of the spot, the golden coffin which enclosed the corpse, and
its desecration during the absence of Alexander in India.^He gives_tbe