'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [588r] (1180/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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581
Kai Kaus, the site of Sassanian mins, and of a fire temple in good preserva
tion, is just on the Kuhgalu side of the border, which runs north-west,
nearly parallel to the Ramuz-Behbehan road, to a point 2 miles west of
Pijan on the Ab-i-Bulfaris. From this point it runs north-east, crossing
the Dalun-Bulfarls road midway between Batik and Bulfarls, and Kuh-i-
Bengistun and Tanbulun to a point midway between Talavar and Kaleh-
i-Ala. The former is a Bakhtiari village, the latter the headquarters of
a section of the Bahmal, tributary to the Bakhtiari. North of Talavar,
a small tract of land, known as Saiyidun, extending to Shah-i-Mangasht,
is in the hands of another section of Bahmal, under Zaki Khan, also tributary
to the Bakhtiari. The south slopes of the Mangasht, for the most part,
and all the east slopes, are in the hands of Bahmal who own allegiance to
Muhammad Husain Khan of Kaleh-i-Ala, or to ’All Murad Khan of
Dishmuk.
Rivers .—The Kuhgalu country is drained by two great rivers, the Karun
and the Jarrahl, and by both the main branches of the latter, viz., the Ab-i-
Ala and_the Ab-i-Marun. The principal Kuhgalu tributaries of the Karun
are the Ab-i-Bars and the Daria-i-Gandum. The Ab-i-’Ala rises on the
east slopes of Mangasht, and drains the cuntry to within a few miles of
Dishmuk, falling eventually into the Rud-i-Zard, of which it forms the
greater part. The basin of the Ab-i-Behbehan, or the Ab-i-Marun, is
apparently entirely Kuhgalu country. Dishmuk (6,500') is near the head
of each of these systems : the Dishmuk Valley itself drains south to
Behbehan. Two miles todhe east the country drains into the Ab-i-’Ala,
and a few miles to the north, into the Ab-i-Bars. All these streams are
snow-fed, and sweet. The mountains run north-north-west and south-
south-east, as elsewhere, but the rivers cut through them forcibly, and,
generally speaking, have a north-east and south-west trend.
Mountains. —From Malamlr south-south-east, to Behbehan extends a
lofty, though not continuous, range of limestone hills from 9,000' to 10,000,
m elevation, which contrast sharply with the low sandstone and gypsum
hills of the Bakhtiari Garmslr. They form a solid barrier between the
Bakhtiari and the Kuhgalu territories, and are the cause of the backward
State of the Kuhgalu as compared with their neighbours. East of this
barrier, extends an elevated plateau, at the head of which lies the Dishmuk
Valley : the plateau is broken by hills, prominent amongst which are the
gaunt limestone saddle-backs of Kuh-i-Barf-i-Kun, and Kuh-i-Nll. The
latter is probably not less than 10,000' high, and its summit is over 4,000'
above the general level of the vicinity.
Places of importance. —The capital of the Kuhgalu country, if any place
can be called such, is Behbehan (q.v.). It is here that the governor of the
Kuhgald resides. Other important places are Dishmuk in the north, and
Basht in the south. For forts in the Kuhgalu country see under the separate
tribes Bulr AhmadI, Dushman Zlari, Bavl and Bahmal.
Climate and Health. —The climate of the Kuhgalu country resembles that
of the Bakhtiari country in being hot in the low country in the summer (as
high a temperature as 124° in the shade having been registered in mid
summer), and temperate in the winter. In the high country, the tem
perature is equable in the summer, but extremely cold im the winter.
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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