"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [و‎‎٣‎١‎٨] (٧٠٦/٦٤٠)

There is a sturgeon fishery at the mouth of the river, farmed out by the Per
sian Government to a Russian company. It is said to produce some 12 000
fish annually. There is a bar at the mouth of the river. A defensive tower of
stone has been built on the sea-shore for protection against the Turkomans.
It is never garrisoned, but serves as a good landmark for vessels coasting along
the shore.— {Fraser ; Holme ; Namier \ Pushchin.)
TlJNAVAR—
A hamlet with 5 houses, ^ mile east of Lasgird. (Schindler.)
TIKAN—
A village of 100 houses, it is the fourth stage on the road from Isfahan
to Hamadan via Sultanabad. 2000 kharwars of wheat are produced an
nually, about 1,000 sheep, mciliat is 250 tuyntins.
TIKAN TAPPER (1)—
A village of 80 houses 3 miles north of Yulghun-Aghach in Afshar, Azar-
baljan.
TIKAN TAPPER (2)—
A village in Kurdistan, 160 miles from Tabriz on the road to Kirmanshah.
One hundred houses ; water plentiful—(Napier.)
TILANDASHT—
A place in the province of Kirmanshah, about 25 miles to the west of
the town of that name, occupied by some families of the Zanganeh tribe.—
(T. C. Plowden.)
TILEHKUH—
A district about 18 farsakhs to the north-west of Sinneh. It numbers 24
villages. The inhabitants are unruly and quarrelsome and number 4,240
souls° The Governor of the district has no fixed residence. Cultivation :
spring and autumn crops. Tobacco (tutun) is also cultivated. Water-
supply from springs. Many gardens have of recent years been planted.
Asl MCliat, 1,506 tumdns. The inhabitants are Sunni Shaffis.
The inhabitants are known as Tilehkuhis. The district is near the Turk
ish border, and in 1912 the Turks sent troops to occupy portions of it,
as well as Khurkhureh.
TIL-I-NAU.
A small village in Mazandaran between Rikaband and Kulbad (g-.v.), the
boundary between Mazandaran and Astarabad. It is one of a group of small
villages lying close to one another at the foot of the hills on the south of the
road to Astrabad. One of these villages is Tiltash, which see below.
TIL RtJD or TlLURUD—
A river in Mazandaran rising in the Elburz mountains, which flows into
the Caspian between ’Abbasabad and Kurkrud. It is fordable in the winter
only.— (Holmes.)
TILMA—
A village in the Sar-i-Tang valley to the east of Fulad-Mahalleh.— {Lov
ett.)