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BAHAMA—
A name for tlie Diala river (q.v.),
RAHDAR KHANEH—
A village in Azarbaijan, 5 miles from Tasuj, on the left of the road from
that place to Khoi. There is a custom house here.—(Moner.)
RAHGIRD—
A village, 34| miles from Qum, on the road to Sultanabad (42| miles).
There is a caravansarai with cistern here, also a stream, and a Peisian
Government telegraph office. Population 1,000 ; 200 houses; 15 pairs
plough-oxen ; 25,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly.—(Preece.)
RAHlMABAD—
A small village, 48| miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan. There
is no drinkable water from here to Robat Karim, 25 miles. The Rahlm-
abad water is brackish. (Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (1)—
A village of 70 houses. miles from Yazd on the road to Kirman.—
(Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (2)—
A small hilly district situated on the right side of the Safid Rud, opposite
Rfidbar. and Rustamabad. Its few villages lie on the precipitous slopes
of the hills in the midst of dense forest. (Schindler).
RAHMATABAD (3)— , ,
A little town occupying one of the higher undulations m the Sahneh
Alvand valley. Its mud-built houses rise above each other, and there
are some two-storeyed brick buildings on a rocky bluff at the eastern end.
A few shops here. The population is about 2,000. Water from a landt
is collected in a reservoir about half a mile from the town.—(Jones.)
RAHMATABAD (4)—
A village 8 miles south ol Damghan, to the right of the road to Jfrat.
(Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (5)— i ^ ^ ^
A village of 22 houses inhabited by Shahsavans. It is to the left of the
Tehra-Qum road at about 2 miles south-west of the Manzarieh bridge.
(Rabino, 1899.)
RAHNA—Elev. 8,000'.
A large village in Mazandaran, situated on a spur of the Damavand
mountain, 15 miles from Biazan, on the road from San to Tehran. It
contains some 200 houses, and lies 1,000 to 1,200' above the Harhaz river
The new road to Tehran passes through it reaching it by a succession of
zigzags, rising 1,000' in a distance of about 1 mile—(Napier.)