"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٦] (٧٠٦/٦١٦)

Communication. —Postal and telegraphic communications are in a sadly
neglected state ; and such is the nature of the Persian Post Office, that no
house of commerce ever entrusts a letter to it; the whole of the correspond
ence being carried on through the couriers of embassies and consulates.
As for the Persian telegraph system, it seems chiefly to be employed in
the distortion and delaying of telegrams ; and the Anglo-Indian telegraph,
which passes through Tabriz, and has a station there, is unfortunately not
allowed to transmit or receive any telegrams in Persia. There are Persian
lines to Urumieh via Dilman, Bask Kaleh, via Turkish frontier, and to Sauj
Bulagh.— {Schindler ; Curzon ; Picot; Wood.)
TABUNEH—
A village in Kurdistan, four miles to the left of the road from Tabriz to
Kirmanshah about 146 miles from the latter place.— (Napier.)
TAFT, vide BAFT.
TAFTAI—
A village above 100 miles south-east of Kirmanshah on the road to Qum.
It is situated in a small valley on the banks of a stream. The soil is very fer
tile, and full of vineyards.
TAGHANAK—
An Armenian village between Kahvarukh and Kharaji, on the Isfahan-
Shushtar road, 80 houses, 450 people. It is watered by the Shamsabad
river and one kandt. Some karbds is made here.— (Preece.)
TAGLAG(?)—
Name of a halting-place on the road from Tehran to Khaf, Khorasan,
37 miles beyond Samnan. Small springs of good water here, but there are
no inhabitants.— (C. E. Stewart.)
TAHIJ—
The same as the Burujird river which with the Kamand Ab forms below
their junction at Bahrain the Ab-\-T)\z.—(Schindler.)
TAHMUBAS or TAMARAS RUD—
A brook in Kurdistan crossed by the Kirmanshah-Tabriz road, about
120 miles from the former, it runs into the Kizil Uzun.
TAILAKU.— (See TILEHKUH.)
TAJABAD—
The chief village of the district of Harat-i-Kara, situated on the eastern
slopes of the outlying spurs of the Ears hills. It is a well built, prosperous
village, containing 500 houses; the house of the Zabit is almost a fort.
There is plenty of water and 192 janbs of ground under cultivation ; watered
by one kandt. Population 2,700 ; 1,000 sheep are to be had. Women are
employed in making (cotton carpet) and/Awfo; 1,920 mans (25,960 lbs.)
of grain are sown yearly.— (Preece, 1892.)