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KARAG—KARAJ
KARAGHAM—
A sub-district of Saveli (q.v.)
KARAGUL (1)—See QURIKUL.
KARAGUL (2)—
A village in the Khamseh district 33 miles west-south-west of Zinjan,
on the right bank of the Kizil Uzun. It is a considerable village situated
on the rise of the plain as it begins to stretch up to the hills— (Rawlinson.)
3 ARAGUZLU (The black-eyed)—
A large Turkish tribe residing in the fertile district extending from
Hamadan in a north-east direction for 30 miles. Mahmud Khan with the
title Nasr-ul-Mulk, who was many years ago Persian envoy at Paris,
Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1885, and Governor General of Khorasan
up to October 1887, was a chief of this tribe, which is about 5,000 families
strong. A branch of the tribe is settled in Pars.
The present (1900) leading chief is the Hisam-ul-Mulk who resides at
Shavarin.
Lat. 35° 47' 43"— Lemm. Long. 50° 59'—St. John. Elev. 4,250' —
Schindler.)
KARAJ—
A fine village of 60 houses situated at the mouth of a gorge in the moun
tains, whence issues the Karaj stream, 26 miles from Tehran on the road
to Kazvln ; its gardens are well stocked with fruit-trees, and the surrounding
district produces barley, wheat, lentils and cotton, and there are plenty
of partridges, wild sheep, hares, and antelopes in the vicinity.
It is also called Sulaimanieh (q.v.) since Path ’AH Shah built a palace
or shooting box there with the money, which his son Muhammad ’AH Mirza,
Governor of Kirmanshah, had taken from Sulaiman Pasha, Governor of
Baghdad. There is some coal not far from (Holmes—Eastwich—
Lovett — Schindler.)
KARAJ RIVER—
Its head waters are on the western slopes of the Kasil Kuh, near Shah-
ristanak about 20 miles north of Tehran. It is crossed by an old three-
arched bridge, 26 miles from Tehran on the road thence to Kazvin, near
the Sulaimanieh village. Elevation Kara) Bridge 4,290'. It is also
crossed at 16| miles by a similar bridge on the Tehran-Hamadan road.
Its waters are drained off into different canals for irrigating the plains
west and south of Tehran ; east of Kinarigird on the Isfahan road it loses
itself in the Kavir.— (Schindler.)
KARAJ (1)—
A river rising in the Paridan division of the Isfahan province, on the
northern slopes of the Kuh-i-Parsisht. Is crossed near Zarneh, on the road
from Isfahan to Burujird, at an elevation of 8,020 feet, whence it flows
towards Gulpalgan.— (Schindler.)
KARAJ (2)—
A group of villages 21 miles from Nihavand on the road to Kirmanshah;
water from a kandt, 30 houses, 260 people : 600 sheep and 24 pair of plough
oxen,— (Preece.)