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BIB—BIH
BI-BtJLAK—
A village of Azarbaijan, one stage from Mianeh, on the road to Mara-
gheh.— (Morier.)
BlDASHK, BlDASHT or correctly BlDHAND—
A village in the Barzrud division of Natanz, 174 miles from Tehran, from
which it is 60 miles distant. It lies half a mile to the east of the road, and
contains some 30 houses, and some cultivation.— (Clerk; Taylor.)
BlDEH—
A village in the Yazd district about 1 mile west from Maibud, and 37
miles from Yazd. It is an old castellated-looking village. Here are made
a great number of the oval-shaped earthen pipes (Ka al) used for making
underground canals (kanats) in loose soil. It is situated on an elevated
part of the plain of Maibud, snd possesses a fine tract of field and garden
land, the former of which produces cotton and barley.— (S7nith; Abbott.)
BIDGUL—
A large village of about 1,000 inhabitants in the Garmsir division of
Kashan, 9 miles north of the town of that name near the moving sands.
It formerly had 1,800 weaving looms, but now makes only a very little stuff,
silk and cotton voxkqA—(S chindler.)
BlDHAND—commonly called BITAN (old form YIDHAND), also see
BlDASHT—
A fine village of 150 houses in the Kuhistan sub-division of Qum, 1|
miles from Abrjlsh. It possesses a mosque, a bath and an Imdmzddeh .—
(Schindler.)
BID-I-SUBKH—
A small but steep hill to the south of the road from Kanga var to Kirmanshah
37 miles from the former. Here there is a spring of good water called
Chashmeh-i-Ab-i-Bid-i-Surkh.—(Iwzar Gul 1911.) There is a village of the
same name.— (Rabino.)
BiFUNA (?)—
A walled town, 2 miles north of the road between Hamadan and Kir
manshah, 37 miles from the former.— (Taylor.)
BlGAMA—
A rich valley in the Kirmanshah district, about 60 miles from Kirmanshah
on the road to Sulaimanieh (via Gahvareh).— (Rawlinson.)
BlGKANDl—see BlKANl—
BlHISHTAN. Vide Bisitun.
BIHISHTI—
A village two miles south of Shah ’Abdul ’Azim on the right of the Tehran-
Qumroads. Its fields extend north to Daulatabad and south to Khairabad.
30 houses.— (Rabino, 1899.)