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SIH KALEHl-
The name of three villages lying near each other in the Bilavar valley
in Kirmanshah, 30 miles north of Kirmanshah city, at the north foot of
the Kuh-i-Baluch. The total number of houses is about 50 inhabited by
Bilawari Kurds. One of the villages belongs to the Valul-ud-Dauleh,
Kirmanshah, and another to Safar ’Ali Khan of Jabarabad Bala. Water
from streams ; a considerable number of trees ; some cultivation and good
grazing. Supplies : 50 cows, 90 sheep and goats.— {Vaughan.)
SlLAKHUR—
A plain situated on the east of the Bakhtiarh mountains. The Sila-
khur valley is situated round Burujird and south of ti e Malayar district.
It is so water-logged that in some places water is obtained by digging to the
depth of 1 foot, especially near the village of Tanjur.— {Layard.)
It is the richest district of the province of Burujird and has 180 villages.
The whole of this elevated valley from a few miles north-west of Burujird to
Hashmatabad is 30 miles in length and about 6 miles in breadth. Many
of the villages are built on artificially-raised mounds, probably to protect
the inhabitants from the exhalations of the marshes and rice-fields, and
also from the attacks of the Lurl tribes. It is divided into two sub
districts—Upper and Lower —and is richly watered by the Tahij stream
and its many tributary brooks ; every village has rich pastures and rice
or corn fields.
Before the famine of 1871-72 it had a population of 26,000 families. Sila-
khur did not suffer by it, and Schindler puts down the population in 1877 at
20,000 families.— {Schindler.)
SILIVAN—
A small village on the banks of the Nimrud where it trends abruptly
south. Beyond it is the escarp, 400' high, of the FTruzkuh plateau. It
is about 30 miles west of Firuzkuh and a few miles east of Arjumand.—
{Lovett.)
SI MIN—
A village close to Zagheh in the Hamadan district; it lies 12 miles south
of Hamadan on the road west to Kirmanshah.— {Taylor.)
SIMINA— .
A village in Kirmanshah about 9 miles west by south of that city and
south of the Kuh Siah Kamar. It contains about 30 houses inhabited by
Zanganeh Kurds. Has some trees, crops and cultivation. Water from
a stream.— {Vaughan.)
SIMINl—
Stands in a valley, cultivated, 1£ miles broad, 5| miles south-east of
Gavarra (Kirmanshah) on the road to Harunabad. There are 120 houses
of Guran Kurds, tenants of the Amir-i-Tuman Husain Kham about half
the houses are permanent; the rest nomads who migrate to> Zuhab in the
winter. Wood, water and forage are plentiful: supplies in summer : room
for camping. An alternative road to Harunabad runs up a side valley.
The crops ripen in July and August,—(.Stirton,)