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MAZR’AEH-KCH-I-SAFlD—
Some fields in the Qumriid division of Qum where the Kallehkuh Arabs
in charge of the Shah’s camels camp in summer and spring.—(<Sc/imrfZer.)
MEHRABAN—
A buluk of Hamadan.—About 100 villages. Bordered north by Khamseh,
north and west by Isfandabad, east by Sardarud and south by Dumb va
Tawabeh. The population is composed of Turks and Khudabandelus. All
t he cultivaf ion is daivrii and there are no kandts. The Mehraban wheat is
the best in Hamadan. There is good sheep grazing in this district and
large quantities of ghl are produced. No opium is cultivated. Only a few
carpets of inferior quality are manufactured.
MEHRf—
A village in Mazandaran, 2 miles south-west of Saiyid Mahalla on the
road from Sari to Barfarush.— (Napier.) ’
MEHRUT—
26 * miIe8 fr ° m K§shSn 011 the road to Sultanabad .—(Preece
loyo.) > *
MlANABlD—
A smaH village 22J miles from Tehran, J mile to the left of the road
to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
MIANDARBAND (1)—
A clan of southern Kurds, who live in the Kirmanshah Province —
(Gerard.) ' l '
MlANDARBAND (2)—
A valley in the Kirmanshah district between Kaklistan and Kamvaran
which is watered throughout its whole length by the Ab-i-Ra 7 aw^^r ,
Vanous Kurdish tribes, amongst which the Ahmadawand Behtui and
the Nanakali are most important, have their summer pastures in this
valley. The northern end of the valley closes in and forms the defile of
1 ang-i-Khurnawazan .—(Plow den.)
MlAN DARBAND (District or bulitk.)
This district extends from the district of Kirmanshah to the province
of Kurdistan, and to the districts of Kuliai and Pusht Darband It con
sists of the sub-districts of Bilawar, Amirabad and Palangan.
The inhabitants are mostly Ahmadavand Behtui.
The Mahall Zir Darband, which forms part of this buluk, is a plain water-
ed by the Ab-i-Razawar; and contains some 23 or 30 hamlets, averaging
from 10 to 30 houses apiece, one of which is Kaklistan, a halting-place
on the roaa to Sinneh (Sinandij), some 16 miles from KirmanshahT *
The district ot Mian Darband is also caHed Bilavar (q.v.) and Buluk-i
Sahseh (q.v.).