'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎508v] (1021/1278)

502
KAM—KAM
KAMALWAND —Lat. Long. Elev,
A village in Luristan, close to Khurramabad.— {Schindler.)
KAMAND AB, vide (ABI-) D1Z.
KAMAN KASHI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears, 4 miles south-east of Kazarun and on the road to Jireh.
— {Abbott.)
KAMARIJ— Lat. 29° 39' N. ; Long. 51° 31' E. ; Elev. 2,950/.
A village of Ears, situated in a plain of the same name between Kunar
Takhteh and Kazarun, 87 miles from Bushire on the road to Shiraz. The
plain is situated near the summit of the pass called Kutal-i-Kamarij. It
is a level patch 9 miles by 4, shut in by hills 600 to 800 feet high. The
village has about 500 inhabitants and lies at the foot of the hills on the
north-western side of the plain. Its grey houses are flat-roofed and built
of stone. It has also a fort, a ruined serai, a telegraph rest-house and
bald Jchdneh, a superior sort of chdpdr khaneh. Very few supplies are pro
curable, but forage is abundant, and fuel is obtainable from the nomads in
the vicinity. The water is good and plentiful from a well at summit of
pass. The Kutal-i-Kamarij is remarkable for the singular conformation of
the long flat-topped hills at its foot, and the extreme badness of the road.
Half-way up the road becomes so narrow that a laden mule strikes its load
against the rocks on either hand. It is literally a staircase, ascending 1,200
feet, shut in by overhanging peaks on the left (going to Kazarun), and with
a torrent bed far below on the right. The opposite side of the torrent-bed is
flanked by a black wall of rock, 300 feet high. On account of its narrow
ness great inconvenience is experienced when caravans from opposite sides
meet in the middle, vide this Gazetteer, Kutal-i-Kamarij. Salt is found at
Kamarij.— {Petty ; Stack ; Ross ; Curzon ; 1889, Routes in Persia, Section I,
Ed. 1898.)
KAMARIJ (District).
History .—About 1905 in the time of Haidar Khan, its late chief, the
district of Kamarij was more important than to-day. Haidar Khan, by
force of arms, obtained unlimited control from the top of the Kutal-i-Malum
to Kazarun where he established himself as Deputy Governor, and turned
out and defeated Khwaja Ibrahim, Kaldntar of Kazarun. Haidar Khan
died of wounds inflicted by a slave at Kazarun in September 1919, leaving
an infant son, Farajullah Khan, in the guardianship of a black confidant
Khurshid. The latter possessed considerable talents, and great bravery.
He had to repel attacks by a brother of the late Haidar Khan, and constant
aggression from men, whom he had outlawed from Kamarij, including the
well-known ’All Muhammad. The Kashkulls were bitter enemies of his,
and coveted the district. In the spring of 1911 Kizam-us-Sultaneh deter
mined to attack Kamarij, urged on by Saulat-ud-Dauleh. Several hundred
Qashqais with other partisans of Nizam bombarded the village and
Khurshid after shutting himself up in the Khans’s fort, on which many of
his own villagers fired, escaped to the Kuh-i-Mast. He was gradually
joined by his adherents, and returned in June 1911 to Kamarij, when he
destroyed most of Hia m -rpia/rp Lo prevent the inhabitants oppos-