"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [ظ‎‎٨‎١] (٧٠٦/١٦٧)

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DEHL—DEHS
DEH-LUR—
A village, about 36 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Tehran. (Trot
ter.)
DEH MIR—
A village between Yarpnsht and Dehak, on the road from Isfahan to
Kirmanshah .—(J ones.)
DEH NAMAK— Lat. 35° 15' 5"; Long. 52° 44' 0"; Elev. 2,750'.
A village of 70 houses, 88 miles from Tehran on the road to Meshed.
There is a fine caravansarai here, containing 24 good rooms, built by
Shah Isma’il, in the 17th century. The plae<? has two ice-cellars, large
water cisterns, a chaparkhaneli and a ruined fort in which 13 families were
living in 1885. The water which comes from the hills to the north is
brackish ; the soil exudes salt and is, therefore, the people say, favourable
to melon’cultivation. Some of the Deh-i-Namak melons can rival the best
of Kashan. The village pays n o mdliat (revenue); its cornfields measure hard
ly 100 acres. Supplies are brought from Khar. Five miles north-east of
? Deh-i-Namak is a salt quarry.—(Schindler.)
DEH NAU—
A village of 15 houses, 19 miles from Hamadan on the road to Burujird;
also called Naudeh.—(ScAwto.)
DEH-NUN—
A village in Isfahan district, 6 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Yazd.
No supplies are procurable.— (Abbott.)
DEH NtSH—
A village, 8 miles from Kangavar, on the road to Hamadan.— (Tay
lor.)
DEH QASIM-KHAN—
A village slightly ofi the road between Sultanabad and Burujird, about
37 miles from the latter.
DEH SAFAK—
A village in Kurdistan on the left of the road from Kirmanshah to Juanrud,
and about 44 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city. It contains about
12 houses inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis, and is situated on a fertile plain.
f Water plentiful from a stream on whose bants grow a few willow trees.
Supplies : 400 cows, 10 donkeys, a few sheep and goats : good grazing; fire
wood scarce.— (Vaughan.)
DEH SAFlD—
A village, 5 miles beyond Harunabad, on the road from Karind to Kir
manshah .—(J ones.)
DEH SHIR—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh division of Yazd, is situated 5 miles
from, and on the southern slope of, the hills to the north of the Abar-Kuh
plain, aud has a great deal of cultivation, all in terraces and well watered.
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