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NlHiVAND—
A town of 3,000 houses with 12,000 people situated 36 miles from Buruiird
on the road to Kirmanshah. It is built just at the foot of the north-east range
ot hills upon some craggy points. In the centre of the town rises the citadel
a most imposing-looking structure and really of some strength. It crowns
the top of the highest of the craggy points on which the place is built, and
is ^PP^ed by an immensely solid mud wall from without, rising at least 100
leet high. Nihavand is celebrated as the scene of the great battle in 641
which gave the Persian Empire to the Arabs. Since Shah ’Abbas re-took
this place from the Turks in 1602, it has been gradually falling into decay
and has now only a thousand houses. 150 Jewish families live in the town!
they are better treated here than elsewhere in Persia. The town contains
7 quarters 4 caravansarais, 5 mosques, 2 high and 11 lower schools, 7 public
baths and 2 bazaars, with about 300 shops. The main trade is in country
woollen materials. _ Water is plentiful and there are fine gardens. The dis
trict forms the basis for a regular regiment. There is a Persian Govern
ment telegraph office here.—(Preece ; Schindler.)
NIASEHRUD—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the the Caspian a few miles east of
fealmrud on the road to Zavar.
. ^ does not contain much water in the winter, but is a considerable rivei
m the spring.— (Holmes.)
NIHSAN—
A village in northern Kurdistan, 65 miles south of Sauj Bulagh on the road
to Yiltomar.— (Gerard.)
NIKAH (I)--Lat. 36°38 0 56'; Long. 53° 16' 30'.
A village in Mazandaran, 17 miles west of Ashraf, 15 miles east of Sari.
It is the chief place of a division of the same name, consisting of many villaces
which are people by a part of the Garaili tribe of Turkish extraction. A
fine full stream of the same name runs through this division, over which there
A hraf n<1 ° me brldge ° £ ° ne arcl1 ' Tliere is a re * ll h good road from Nikah to
The village has 200 houses, scattered among woods and gardens, on
both sides of the Nikah stream. There are six villages with Garaili tribes
in the same sub-division.— (Fraser ; Napier.)
NIKAH (2)— Lat. 36° 50' 0"; Long. 53° V 40".
on A Mazandaran which rises in the Shah-Kuh mountain within
aOmi esofShahrud, and flows into the Caspian, 12 miles west-north-west of
the village of Nikah.— (Napier.)
JnKPAI— Lat. 36° 51' 1"; Long. 48° 20'; Elev. 4,470'.
A village in the Khamseh district 181 miles ’ from Zinjan on the road
thence to Tabriz. Has a post-house, and an old caravansarai Ponu
lation about 500.— (Schindler.) ' *°P U
NILAMBU—
A ridge of hills crossed on the road from Zuhab to Sulaimanleh, near
the Perso-Turkish frontier, distant about 50 miles from Zuhab in Kurdis-
tan,— (Rawhnson.)