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GAEDANEHIK—GARDANEHIR
GARDANEH-I-KHAN—
Is a long and difficult mountain pass between Saqqlz and Baneh; it is gene
rally snowed up in winter. It has several stone built khans to serve as re
fuges.— {Schindler, 1902).
GARDANEH-I-KHUSHAMAHEH—
A pass in Persian Kurdistan to the Sinneh-Sulaimanieh road, about 9
miles beyond Davaiza. Both ascent and descent are steep, the Sulai-
manleh side being the worst.—(T. C. Plowden.)
GARDANEH-I-MULAWAS—(Mulla’ Abbas ?)
A pass some 43 miles from Kirmanshah on the road to Tabriz. Ascent
on the Tabriz side about 300 feet on the other about 900; the path is
obstructed by boulders, and is tortuous and narrow, but with practicabla
gradients and capable of improvement.— {Napier.)
GARDANEH-I-NA’L-SHIKAN (No. 1)— {i.e., the horse-shoe-breaking pass)—
A pass in Kurdistan, about 36 miles north of Kirmanshah on the road
from the Bllawar, valley to Ruvansar. Elevation 6,432 feet. It is about
4| miles west of Maran (Marab in maps), and the ascent thence is easy,
though the last half mile of it is very stony and slippery in places from
smooth slanting rocks. It is impassable to field guns. The summit is
fairly level for | mile, and it and the hills on either side are covered with
bushes and shrubs. On the Ruvansar side there is a very steep and diffi
cult descent for 1J miles; road generally very (bad from loose stones, a
few short stretches of an easier gradient, intervening. The hills on either
side of the valley into which the descent takes place are steep and high.
It would be easier for a force to advance from east to west across it than
vice versa. The heights on either side are accessible from the summit of
the pass, and those on the south of the route, from Maran, whence a flank
ing force could move. It offers a strong defensive position facing west
and would be very difficult to force from that direction.— {Vaughan.)
GARDANEH-I-N’AL-SHIKAN—(No. 2.)
A pass in Kirmanshah, about 25 miles south-west by west of Kirman
shah city and on the main road, thence to Baghdad. Its elevation is 5,440
feet. It is 2| miles in length, and, though the road up it, is stony
and formed of slabs of rock, sometimes slippery on its northern side, its
gradient is easy and it is passable to field guns. The summit is 1 mile
from the northern side, and the descent thence is down a valley over loose
stones. Its southern exit forms a good position facing .south, the road for
| of a mile after leaving it running within 800 yards range of the crest. The
northern slope of it might form a position facing in that direction. It is
turnable east by a road from Harunabad, which runs over or through the
range under a hill, whose summit is marked by a clump of trees 4 or 5 miles
off and to the west by the road from Gardaneh Cheharzabar to Gavarra.—
{Burton .)
GARDANEH-I-PASBANDEH— Elev . 7,080'.
A pass 71 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Ardal, 14 miles distant
south-west— {Mackenzie.)