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DEH-DEH
DEHlNEH-I-GHARQAB—
A pass in Khorasan on the Maisfcr hills, which separates the Nlmbulu k
and Gunabad plains. This pass was commonly used by Turkoman damans
or raiding parties.— (Bellew.)
DEHANEH-I-GURGAN— Lat. 37° 21' 0"; Long. 56° 0' 0".—{Napier.)
A pass near the source of the Gurgan river in Kurdish Khorasan. It
has hills on either side wooded to their summits with oak, and the defile
which, as a rule, does not exceed 200 yards in width, is full of trees of
various sorts. The road is stony in places, and in others, to judge from
the holes, it must be very muddy in wet weather. The jungle is so dense
that nothing but a pack animal could get through, and a regular road
would have to be cut through the wood before it could be made passable
for wheels. Laden camels must have difficulty in getting through.
The descent is gradual, about 1,100 feet in the first 11 miles. ’ The
stream for the first half of the way is very small, but lower down it in
creases in size to some 12 feet in width, and nearly a foot in depth.
The village of Ishaqi, which is situated in the defile, is about 12 miles
from Dasht. It lies away up in the hills to the south and is not visible
from the road. It contains some 20 families of Turks.
From Ishaqi the road continues on down the defile through thick woods.
The trees on the hill side are of fair but not of great size, but the oaks in
the defile rise to a height, in places, of 100 and 120 feet, with a circum
ference of 14 or 15 feet at the base. In addition to the oaks there are
species of beeches and sycamores and a dozen other kinds of trees, and the
glades are full of brambles, ferns and bracken.
Some 4 miles below Ishaqi, or about 15 miles from the beginning of the
defile from Dasht, the defile gradually widens, and the narrow pass may be
said to end there. At about the 5th mile the road passes through an old
cemetery said to have belonged to Garili Turks, the ancient inhabitants
of the country before the Kurds arrived. Some 2 miles beyond the
cemetery the first Guklan obd is reached. Beyond this the hills on
either side widen out and decrease in height, and one passes through an
open, grassy valley with wooded hills on each side, those on the south being
rather more wooded than the northern ones. The stream flowing through
the Dehaneh-i-Gurgan is not the main Gurgan river, but only an affluent
of it called Ab-i-Dehaneh, which joins the Gurgan river at AjI Kaushan
near Darreh Gaz, some 8 or 9 miles to the west by north of Chaqur. The main
stream of the Gurgan river takes its rise from a spring called Yalall
Chashmeh at the foot of the Gull Dagh range. Wild pig and pheasants abound
in the defile.—(C. E. Yate.)
DEHANEH-I-’ISHQABAD—
A pass through the spur of the Atak range l^hat bounds the Darreh Gaz
valley on the north-west.— (Napier.)
DEHANEH-I-ISTAZIJ—
A pass between Nigarman and Abarsij, in the Kfih Paieh sub-district of
bhahrud-Bustam. The little stream, which runs through it, goes to
Bustam .—&