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PENJVIN (Turkey)—
A village in Turkey 4 farsakhs from Merivan.— (Customs.)
PIACHAN—
A pass from Baneh to Bistan, across the Zagros mountains from Kurdistan
to Bobeh.— (Rich.)
PIAVEN (Baneh)—
A village of the district of Baneh. It is 2 farsakhs from Benekveh on the
road thence to Kanibard and Alut.— (Customs.)
PILEH or PILEK (Merivan)—
A village of the district of Merivan. It is f farsakh from Merivan on the
road thence to Sarah— (Customs.)
Famous in Kurdish annals as being the place where Mu’tamad-ud-Dauleh
hanged Hasan Sultan Aurami in sight of his thousand armed tufangchis.
PIRAN (Turkey)—
A village If farsakhs horn. Penjvin and near the Persian frontier (Merivan
district).
PIREH-SAFA (Merivan)—
A village of the district of Merivan. It is f farsakh from Eskul and | from
Kanimiran on the road between the two.— (Customs.)
PIR-MAGAR— Elev. 5,761'.
A village in Kurdistan about 30 miles south of Senna, on one of the roads
from that place to Kirmanshah. It is situated in a valley whose stream flows
into Gav-rud, distant about 1 mile. It contains about 50 houses built on one of
the slopes of a small hill standing in the entrance to the valley. A great number of
willow and other trees in the vicinity also a number of fruit gardens. Extensive
crops, chiefly wheat and barley, reaped in August; good grazing. Supplies :
1,000 sheep and goats, a few horses and donkeys. Good camping-ground for troops
in the vicinity ; water plentiful; roads run frcm here to Senna and Kirmanshah,
distant 36 and 78 miles, respectively.— (Vaughan.)
PIR-MUGAN—
A village in Ardalan, some distance off the road between Faki-Sulaiman
and Kamiaran, 60 miles north of Kirmanshah.— (Gerard.) This is the same
as Pir-Magar.
PIR-OMARAN (Sakiz)—
A village of the district of Sakiz. It is f farsakh from Kora Darreh on the
road thence to Chiragh Vais.— (Customs.)
PUL-I-DARVISHBEG (or bridge op Faki-Sulaiman)—Elev. 4,840'.
This bridge is thrown across the Gav-rud 8 miles above its junction with the
Kishlaq stream. The bridge is strongly and well built of brick, and rises to a point
in the centre of its length, the road-way being paved with large stones ; it is but
tressed on rock and stone, and has three pointed arches. The way is 24 feet in
length; between outer buttresses 25 yards ; total length 40 yards. The ap
proaches on either bank are being gradually eroded by water.
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