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MAMUKEH —vide CHIGHlKHtJR.
MA’MUREH—
A walled Armenian village in the Chehar Mahal district of Bakhtiari
country, 1| miles from the village of Ganduman.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
MA’MURI —vide SHATT-AL-’ARAB.
MANAI’AT—
A section of the Ka’b tribe (y.v.).
MANAS IR—
A division of the Bani Salih tribe (y.v.).
MAND— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in Khuzistan, some 8 miles above where Muhammareh now stands.
It is on the Karun river, and a dam was constructed here in former years
by the Ka’b Arabs to turn the river bodily towards Qubban, then the capi
tal of the Ka’b nation.— (Ross.) :
MANDALl— Lat. Long. E lev.
A river and village in Khuzistan between Badrai and Mangarreh.
MANDIZAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A celebrated hill fort (Diz), situated on the hill overlooking the plain be
tween Shushtar and Dizful in Khuzistan. It is a place of some strength
against an unscientific enemy, and is the residence of the Mahmud Laleh
branch of the Chehar Lang Bakhtiari. The proper name is Miandizan.—
(Layard.)
MANGANUN or MANJANlQ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in Khuzistan, through which the river Talkh flows. There are
some ruins here.— {DeBode.)
MANGASHT (KUH-I-)— Elev. 12,000'.
: A great moutain range, in the Lower Bakhtiari country. The range has a
south-easterly trend, with its north-easterly spurs abutting on to the Karun
river near the Pul-i-Shalu. The length of the range is probably not less
than 100 miles ; its south-easterly extremity running into the Qashqai
country. The only known track leading over these mountains is one from
the Pul-i-Shalu to Kaleh-i-Tul, traversed by Layard and described as
execrable. It is said that the road between these two places by this track
can be traversed within 8 hours.— {Arbnthnot, 1905.)
MANGARREH— Lat. Long. Elev.
It forms one of the outer or eastern portions of the great Zagros, and
together with two other parallel ranges, renders Rawlinson’s route from
Dizful to Khurramabad via Qarab extremely difficult and quite imprac
ticable for an army.— {Bell.)
MAN!AN— Lat. 28° 36' N. Long. 53° 7' E. Elev.
A village in Ears, 48 miles from Firuzabad on the road thence to
Jehrum. It is enclosed in a square of mud walls with small turrets, and