'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎172v] (349/1278)

BEEiSHTABAD (AB-I-)—
In the Bakhtiari country. This stream is considered to be one of the main
sources of the Karim river. It represents the drainage of the whole of the
Chehar-Mahal and has itself three principal sources. These are the Ab-i-
Junaqan, the Ab-i-Jehan Bin and the Ab-i-Shalamzar. The first named rises
in the mountains enclosing the western extremity of the Chehar-Mahal, and
runs an east by south-easterly course of some 30 miles. The second has its
origin in the range in continuation of the Kuh-i-Rukh, and waters many of
the chief villages of the plateau, such as Zanian, Deh-i-Kurd, Shamsabad
and Kharaji. It winds across the level plain until it enters the Tang-i-Kha-
rajl where it is crossed by a well-built brick bridge with a ten-foot roadway
and a fifty-foot span, 2 miles before reaching the village of that name. A
second similar bridge, somewhat narrower^ crosses it at the south end of the
village. To the last named place its course is south by south-east and thence
south-west; its_total run being about 50 miles before its junction with
the third, the Ab-i-Shalamzar, some 8 miles south-west of Kharaji. It is
crossed by a third well-built masonry bridge immediately before the junction.
The third source rises in the eastern extremity of the Zirreh range, and not
far from Chiglia Khur. It runs a north-westerly course of some 25 miles
through the villages of Shalamzar—where it is bridged by a narrow brick
structure—and Dastaneh before mixing with the Ab-i-Jehan Bin. These two
streams, after uniting, run a further course of 8 miles before reaching the
Ab-i-Junaqan in the early portion of the Tang-i-Darkash Warkash. The
stream thus formed, and which is just barely fordable at this point, now
cuts its way almost due south through this remarkable gorge (vide Gazet-
teer-Tang-i-Darkash Warkash), and becomes a rushing torrent by a fall
of some 600 feet within the next 6 miles. It then issues from the gorge
and passes under the bridge at Bahishtabad. This structure is of stone
and mortar, of one pointed arch with a 30-foot span. Its roadway is
not wide enough for any kind of cant, but the gorge is quite strong enough
to permit of a wider superstucture of wood or other material. After a
further course ot 2 miles, or in its longest branch of some 70 miles in all—
it runs into the Kuh-i-Rang source of the Karun river.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
BEHMAN YARl— Lat. 29° 48' N. ; Long. 50° 29' E.; Elev.
The most northern village of the Haiat Baud district of Ears, situated 15
miles north by west of Ganaveh, and a few miles north-east of Kuh-i-Bang,
in the Liravl district, on the road from Deh Kuhneh to Zaidan. It contains
75 houses, inhabited mostly by Lurs from Behbehan, and four small towers.
Some of the buildings like those of ’Abbasi, are said to be very ancient.
Dates, wheat and barley are grown ; and the inhabitants who are said to be
very quiet and civil own 30 donkeys and 800 sheep.—(Pelly : Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BEHRISTAN or MUKHDAN— Lat. 27° 41' N., Long 52° 49' E.; Elev. 2,116'.
A village in Laristan, 178 miles from Bushire, on the road to Lar.
It is situated directly at the foot of the Kuh Zalimi range, and consists of
about 50 houses, some of stone, others of mats. To the east of the village
is a larffe date-grove, and about J mile to the south a small, solitary, lime
stone hill wdth very precipitous sides.