'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎480v] (965/1278)

KAO—KAF
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KACIIAL KtH—
A mountain in Kirmanshah on the west of the road from Kirmanshah city
to Baghdad via Mandali. The Kifraur valley is north of it, and that side
of it which rises out of the valley is a very precipitous wall of rock for many
, hundred feet. Its summit is open and level, while there is a dense growth
of trees at its foot and in its valleys. Its height must be somewhere near
8 00.0 feet. It is part of the range which borders the Guar valley to the
north-west. South of it is the Chila valley into which it slopes more
gradually. Within 4 miles to the east of it are passes, from the Chila into
the Guar valley—the Gardanehs, Timanjik, and Amrullah.—(Faw^aw.)
KACH1—GACHIN (Lorimer.) — Lat. 27° 8' N. ; Long. 55° 56' E.;
Elev. 3'.
A village in the Shamil district, 23| miles from Bandar ’Abbas and about
1 mile south of the road leading from that place to Lar. It consists of
approximately 100 houses, of which about half are neatly built of mud and
stone and the rest of date-mats, and contains some 400 inhabitants.
On the road is an old dilapidated caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , with a large cistern, and
between this and the village lie considerable date-plantations, while to the
east rises a rocky range of hills known as the Kuh-i-Gachin. Water is
plentiful, and camel-grazing good .—(Butcher, April 1888.)
KACirC— ( )
A village in the plain of upper Linjan, near the Zindeh Bud, some 40 miles
( from Isfahan. It lies to the left of the road from Isfahan to Shushtar.—
(Schindler.)
KADAMGAH— Lat. 29° 45' N.; Long. 53° 13' E. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Ears, on the Tashk-Shiraz road, 20 miles before reach
ing Persepolis. ' .
Kadamgah is a platform cut out of the natural rock ; it has two easy
flights of steps leading up to it. It appears to have been originally meant
as a place for some historical inscription, or bas-relief, similar to those
at Darab or Shapur, but either the rock was unsuitable or time did not allow
• the idea of the author to be carried out. In front of the platform is a poo
of clear, cool water. Wells says that it takes its name from curious marks
- on the rocks, which are said to be the footprints of ’All’s horse.— (Wells
- Preece, 1892.)
b KAFEH-I-MAHARLU-Lat. Long. Elev. ,
The name given to the plain in Fars between Shiraz and Fasa as tar as
Sarvistan. From this village it is called Kafeh-i-Sarvistan.—(Owsefet/.)
~ KAFLEH JAH— Lat. ; Long. ; Elev. 1,410/
A halting-place in the south of Pusht-i-Kuh at the junction of two dry
ndlds- where a stream is found. No people or supplies. Water in plenty
n from the stream.— (Ranking, 1909.)
'KAFTARAK— ° ,
A village on the north bank of Lake Mahalu.— See photo.