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KUH-KUH
K0H ANAREH R0D—Lat. Long. Elev.
A spur in Luristan crossed on the third stage from Khurramabad to
DizfuL— (War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 79.)
KUHAK or ABU GHARIB— Lat. 29° 19' N. Long. 50° 46' E. Elev.
A village in the Haiat Baud district of Ears, 5 miles south-eas of
Bandar Rig. The salt stream, called Rudkhanoh-i-Shur, passes the village
on the east and south on its way to the sea. The village contains 15
huts, inhabit ed by Lurs from Behbehan, who cul ivate on a small scale
and own about 100 camels and 30 donkeys. They also send some wool
to the Bushire market. Wells are reported here.—(Pe%; Persian Gulf
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUHASH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 22 miles west-north-west of Darab, and 2 miles from
Madavan on the road to Shiraz.
KUH BAHRAM SHAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of rocky hills, with a lower range of gravelly bills, 500 feet high,
at its foot, bounding the south side of the valley of Riz in Ears.—(RwfcAer
1888.)
KUH BALA SI A— Lat. Long. Elev.
A peak of the Kuh Zalami range, two miles north of Asir, in the south
east of Ears.— [Butcher, 1888.)
KUH BEHBEHAN— Lat. 30° 29 / 10'; Long. 50° 54' 30' ; Elev. 10,400'.
A great mountain mass, of irregular outline, lying in an east and west
direction ; the highest part is 10,400 feet high, and in very clear weather
can be seen 125 miles, i.e., from the bar of the Basrah river. The summit
is 6| miles north-east by east from Dilam, and has snow on it for 6 months
in the year.— [Constable—Stiffe — Persian Gulf Pilot.)
KUH CHIREH ZAYIL—
A range of hills in Kirmanshah bounding the Ivan valley to the south.
The range to the south-east becomes a knife-like ridge which runs for 6 miles
till it joins the Manisht Kuh. The top of the ridge is indented like a saw,
and it is through the most western of these that the Gardaneh Runu passes’
West of the Gardaneh the range rises steeply from the Ivan valleyto its
north and on the south side, and terminates abruptly in cliffs several hundred
feet in height, below which are steep slopes well-wooded and terminating in
the Chavar valley. ' The northern slope, which is well-wooded, contains
numerous broadband deep ravines of short length. These are thickly wood
ed. The strata, like those of most of the other ranges in this part of Persia
are upheaved towards the south-west, pointing in that direction at aneies
between 20° and 60 0 .'— (Vaughan.)
Kt)H DASHT or KIASHT— Lat. Long. Elev. 3,850'.
A broad plain in the Pish Kuh district of Luristan, on the western edge
of which flows the Madlan river. The plain stretches some 8 miles in all