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TARAKUMl—
A village in Laristan. The inhabitants of this village, combined with
the Varavis to threaten Lingeh in 1912, vowing vengeance on the British
Consulate because of the arms blockade. There is no further information
about the place.
TARAlt— Lat. Long. Elev.
A name of the Taliyur branch of the Tab river of Khuzistan.
TARAZ— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,150'.
A halting-place iu the Bakhtiari country, 98 miles from Dizful, on the
road to Kaleh Bazuft via Duma Khail, near some springs. No supplies;
and water scarce (May). Fuel plentiful.— (McSwiney, 1819.)
TARHAN—
Name of a tribe in Luristan {q.v.).
TARIF—
A division of the Bait Sa'ad tribe {q.v.).
TARSEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the MuguvT Bakhtiari country on the track between Masir
and Kaleh Huma, and 5 miles from the former.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
TARUM— Lat. 28° 10' N.; Long. 55°51' E., Elev.
A ruined town in Laristan, formerly the head quarters of a district of
the some name, 62 miles south-east of Gakum, and 132 miles north-west
of Sa'adatabad.
It consists of a rectangular fort, some 500 or 600 yards square, the faces
turned to the four cardinal points of the compass, and is surrounded by a
wide, deep, dry ditch. The latter is crossed at the entrance, which is
in the east face, by a solid causeway. Within are some rather fine buildings,
but at the time of Galindo^s visit in 1888 they were completely deserted
and were falling to ruin, as likewise were the walls of the fort.
Galindo gathered from an old man of Sa^adatabad the following brief
history of its decline:—Forty years previously {.ie. r prior to 1888) it was
a flourishing town, one Nasir Khan being then Governor. On his death
he was succeeded by his son, Ali Khan, who commenced the old tale of
oppression and extortion, with the result that many left the town during
his Governorship. He was surpassed, however, in tyranny and rapacity
by his son and successor, Nazir Ullah Khan, and the place became entirely
depopulated and has since remained so, while Nazir Ullah Khan himself
having omitted to remit part of his plunder to the Shah, ended his days in
prison at Tehran.
To the south and east of Tarum is a vast salt marsh, but not of the usual
barren description, being covered, on the contrary, in most parts with grass
and small salsolaceous plants, and intersected by a stream, fringed with
date-groves, which flows from north to south in a wide shallow channel.—
{Galindo, November 1888.)
TASHAN— Lat. 30° 48' N.; Long. 50° 22' E. ; Elev.
A village and district in Khuzistan about 15 miles north-west of Beh-
behan, passed on the road thence to Shushtar, by the Kuhgalu country