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The unit of length is the zar shdhi, which is about 1 metre 3| centimetres, or about
40 inches.
2 bars
. =1 gireh.
4 gireh
. — 1 charak.
4 charak
. = 1 zar.
1 farsakh is
A maiddn is
equal nominally to 6,000 zar shdhi.
a quarter of a farsakh.
Juft is the superficies ploughed by a pair of oxen. This is an undetermined measure,
which varies according to the nature of the land.
Gardens and ground in town are sold by the zar, gardens sometimes by the jarib=l,000
square zars.
Coinage.—
20 shdhls .. .. - •• •• •• =1 hran.
\0 lerans .. .. •• •• •• ••• =1 tumdn.
The £ T. gold is sold in the bazaars at from 60 to 52£ krlns. The Turkish Consulate
reckon the 1£ T. for passport purposes at 55 krans.
For “ Communications ” see under Kirmanshah (province), except Posts
and Telegraphs, which are in this article under the heading “ administration. ”
Authorities.— Bell ; Mann ; Preece, 1899 ; Curzon ; Whigham, 1902 ; Cesari,
1904 ; Rabino, 1907 ; Intelligence Summaries.)
For further details s°e Rabino’s “Gazetteer of Kirmanshah,” from which
most of the above article was extracted.
KISB—
A village of 60 houses on the Nanaj river, a couple of miles below Nanaj
and to the right of the road from Hamadan to Daulatabad Malayar.'—
(Schindler.)
KISHMISH TAPPER—
An Armenian village in north-western Azarbaijan. About 8 miles north
west of Maku.— (Picot, 1894.)
KISHYA—
A small village in Talish (Gilan), some few miles west of Astara, and on
the Astara River. It consists of about half a dozen huts.— (Holmes.)
KlSUM—
A village in Gilan, on the right bank of the Safid Rud, east of Rasht
and about 12 miles west of Sangarud.—(tfoZmes.)
kiyar—
A village in Khamseh on the Zinjaneh Rud, 5 miles below Zinjan
(Schindler.)
KIZIL.—
A district and torrent between Bishkan and Aghdagh m_ Bajlan.
Included in the winter quarters of Safar Khan Sultan NairzhI Guran. The
stream is dry in summer.— (Soane, 1912).
KIZIL BASH—
The general name given to a powerful combination of 32 Turkish tribes
to break whose power the Shahsavan tribe was started by Shah ’Abbas
I in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The most important
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