"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٧] (٧٠٦/٣٩٨)

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KULAN—
A plain in Persian Kurdistan on the borders of Turkish territory. It takes
its name from a small village in the hills shutting it in on the north. The
plain is passed through between Panjvin (Turkish) and Marivan on the
road from the former to Sinneh.— (T. C. Plowden.)
KULAN or AB-I-KULAN—
A stream forming one of the somces of the Gamasiab ; it rises east of
Daulatabad near Hamadan, flows west, crossing the road from Daulatabad
to Nihavand at 2^ miles. It is here 30 feet wide and 1 to 2 feet deep (April)
and is crossed by a bridge.— {Schindler.)
KULAPAH—Bala Darband.
A village of the Bala Darband district. Together with Iga it pays Tcrdns
407*018 cash and Kharwdrs 10-20-0 grain mdliydt:—{Rabino.)
KULAPAH—Kalhurs.
A branch of the Kalhur tribe, numbering 500 families, of nomads and
sedentary rayyats. Their chief is Nasrullah. Their Garmsirs are Takht
Khan, in Gilan and their Sardsirs, Millehsar in Ravand.
They furnish one company to the Kalhur regiment—(Roitno, 1907.)
KULABIS—Elev. 6,830'.
A small village, about 15| miles from Imamzadeh Ism’ail towards Isfahan.
It is on a shallow stream, 10 feet wide, flowing into the Zindeh Bud.—
{Bell, 1884.)
KULASH1K—
A place in Kirmanshah where the Slyah Slyah clan of Kalhurs reside.—
{Plowden.)
KULBAD—
A place in Mazandaran, where there are silver, copper and lead mines which
are said to be well worth working.— {Eastwick.) A Sub-district of AshraL
— {Rahino.)
KULBAD—
A village in Mazandaran, 1 mile west of the boundary of that province
with that of Astarabad.
| The boundary is marked by a dry ditch, about 10 yards wide and 5
yards deep, constructed originally as a defence against the Turkomans,
and known as the Jar-i-Kulbad. It extended from the mountains to the
sea, but it is in many places obliterated, the banks having fallen in and
become overgrown with vegetation. It is 18 miles from Ashraf and 8
miles from Gaz.
There is a river of the same name as the village 1 mile west of the Jar-i-
Kulbad, with a bed about 50 yards wide, which is quite dry in the winter,
but which would be very difficult to ford in the spring on account of the large
stones in the channel.— {Holmes.)
Kuba Rud-Gauhar Barun, a branch of the Nika liver.— {Rabino.)
KULEJAR—
A village in the Ardahal division of the Qum district.— {K. Abbott.)