'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎570v] (1145/1278)

564 KHU—KHU
Revenue. —Assessed (with the Chigini) at 10,000 tumdns'm cash and hind.
Military. —The town and fort are commanded from high ground to the
eastward within easy rifle range. The place is of no military strength. The
camping-ground suitable for a brigade lies to the west of the town. Khur-
ramabad has never been sacked, as the inhabitants are well-armed and never
fail to offer a stout resistance.
Post and telegraph.—There is a Post Office with weekly mails to and from
Burujird, and fortnightly to and from Dizffd. A Dirful-Khurramabad
telegraph line existed at one time, but it was destroyed a very short time
after its erection.
Bridges. —A bridge, now broken, crosses the river 1| miles south of the
town, leading to the old town. The present bridge was built by ’All Mardan
Khan in the 9th century and was repaired by Muzaffar-ul-Mulk. Breadth
of roadway 18' ; length, 300 yards.—( Frederick—Chesney—Kinneir—
Robinson—Jones—Schindler—DeMorgan—Wilson.)
KHURRAMl, vide KHAN-I-KIRGAN—
KHURRAM SHAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village close to Yazd on the southern side.— {Abbott.)
KHURREH— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,390'.
An encampment of the Kuhgalu under Yali Khan in the Buvair-Ahmad!
country, on the Behbehan-Isfahan road, 269 miles from the latter ; con
tains an imamzddeh ; grazing in valley good. Water muddy, and in no
large quantity (8th June 1884.)— {Beil).
KHURREH VAKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, in the buluk of Kam Flruz {q.v.).—{Durand.)
KHUR SALAJ— Lat. 29° 59' 20" ; Long. 48° 46' ; Elev.
A creek on the coast of Khuzistan, which runs up into the Karun river.
Its entrance is nearly blocked up.— {Bruchs.)
KHUR SHAKARl— Lat. 24° 2' N.; Long. 50° 56' E. ; Elev.
A branch of a deep creek running past the east side of Bushire town.
Where the creek forks, the Khur Shakari bears at first to the north-east,
and then sweeps round in a great semi-circle and eventually rejoins the
Bushire bay at its northern end. Here it is called Khur Bandar-gah and
Shlf in the Angali district is situated on it. The Khur runs close along
the north end of Jazireh-i-Shaikh Sa’ad, and has 5 to 10 fathoms in it opposite
the tower on that island ; it then turns south-east behind the Lland, passing
i mile west of Shlf point. The bar of Bandar-gah creek, 1J miles west of
the tower, has only | fathom at low water ; a reef runs off 1£ miles south
west from the tower, and there is another projecting as much on the north
side of this creek. {Vide this teener—Bushire town.)— {Constable—Stiffe
—Persian Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHUR SHEHABl or HURSHAVl— Lat. 28° 30' N.; Long. 51° 10' E.;
Elev.
A village on the coast of the Tangistan district of Ears, 2 miles south of
Bulkhair and containing 50 houses. Wheat, barley and dates are cultivated
by the inhabitants, who also possess 5 trading vessels and 20 fishing-boats,