'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎67r] (138/1278)

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District .—Anar district has 27 villages within a 4-mile radius, excluding
Baiaz and Gird Kuh, with a total of some 500 houses and 3,000 people,
and stretches from Gird Kuh to Baiaz. The total wheat and barley
amounts to 150,000 maunds, cotton to 30,000 with a mdlidt of 2,395
iinidns, sheep 2,500, camels 30, donkeys 150, and 27 qandts—10 salt, 17
sweet. Labour at one hrdn per diem. No trees or timber, buteh being
used as fuel.
ANARAN, KUH-I—
Hills in the south of Pusht-i-Kuh, forming the south side of the Tang-
-i-Tima.— (Ranking, 1909.)
ANAREH RANGE—
A range of the Pusht-i-Kuh of Luristan, running from a north-westerly
to south-easterly direction between the Tima and Mema rivers, which
debouch past its extremities into the plain of the Tigris.
The range is of no great elevation, rising only to some 3,000 to 4,000
feet above the adj acent country. Its northern slopes are wooded with dwarf
oak and shrubs .and deeply scarred with irregular ravines. Its southern
aspect is bare of trees and overlooks the Tigris plain and the Zurbatieh-
Dizful road, which here skirts its slopes. Grass is abundant throughout its
- extent, and there is some cultivation in the ravines on its northern side
(B.)
ANAREH RUD— Lat. Long. Elev.
The left branch of the Ab-i-Zal river, (q. v.).—Wilson, 1911.)
ANAREK—
40 farsakhs east of Isfahan; copper, silver and lead reported here.—
(Allahverdiantz 1891.)
ANDAKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A winter quarter of the Lur tribe among the hills of Lall in Khuzistan.
(Laijard.)
ANGALl (District)—
A small district of Ears, but subject to the Governor of the Gulf Ports
situated on the mainland immediately to the north-east of Bushire town ;
it is enclosed between the Rudhilleh stream on the north, the Rudhilleh
district on the west, the- Bushire harbour on the south and the Dashtistan
district on the east.
Extent and 'physical characteristics .—The length of Angall is about 15
miles from north to south, but its breadth is only 5 to 10 miles. The whole
is a plain and the southern part is a barren waste. The climate m winter
is cold and in summer, from June to August, a very hot wind blows in the
middle of the day.
Population.— people, numbering only some 2,700 souls, area mixed
race, the blood of Behbeham Lurs probably predominating ; there is a
small Arab infusion. The men of Angall are described as bold and hardy.
They wear daggers and are well-armed with Martini rifles, nearly 400 of
which are possessed in the district. All the people follow agricultural