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m blue sheets over shelving rocks or boiling in deep pools, is a perpetual
pleasure to the senses. An attempt was made by Shah 3 Abbas to turn the
Kurand into the Zindeh Rud.— (Stack.)
KURANl—
One of the small group of Chehar Banicheh tribe of Illats, comprising
the Kurani or Kurunf, i.e., Bunrul Zangineh, Ardashir and Vanda. The
two former are Lak tribes living in north-west Fars.— (Andreas.)
KURASHEH— Lat. 31° 46' N. ; Long. 54° 11' E. ; Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, 4f miles west of Taft. It is a long and
straggling village of some 200 houses, with numerous gardens. There
is a considerable amount of cultivation and trees. Water is obtainable.
(Vaughan, 1891.)
KURBAL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A district of the province of Ears, 32 miles east of Shiraz, at the south
west corner of Lake Niriz. It possesses about 100 villages and hamlets, most
of them dependent on the water obtained from the Kur by means of h hands
or dams, thrown across it. Most of the water in the Band Amir river is
exhausted before it reaches lake Niriz on account of the numerous irrigation
channels in this district, which is one of th:s most fertile in the country,
producing abundance of rice, barley, wheat, tobacco and some cotton.
The cultivation of rice in this plain is inconceivably great, and it is admit
ted to be by far the richest and cheapest in the Persian Empire. The
greatest part of the wine, known by the name of Shiraz wine, is made
here. It extends east and west from Pul-i-Talkh to Band Amir, about 40
miles and north and south about 15 miles. Estimated population about
10,000.— (K. Abbott — Pottinger.)
KURBEH —vide GURBEH.
. KURDS—
See article on Luristan.
KURD ’ALIWAND—
Name of a tribe in Luristan (q.v.).
KURD AVAN— Lat. 28° 9' N.; Long. 51° 21' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, on the right bank of the Mund
river and 2 miles from its mouth. It contains 100 houses of Hajian, Ruuseh,
Shaikhha and Mullaha.— (Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KURDEH— Lat. 27° 47' ; Long. 54° 28' E ; Elev.
A village in Laristan situated about 1 mile to the west of the Lar-i-Darab
road, 12 miles from the former place.
It consists of about 20 houses with a well of good water, and on a hill
overlooking the village are the ruins of a small fort.
Two or 3 miles to the west of the village are extensive date-groves, while
some 2 miles to the north-east, on the side of the main caravan track,
stands a caravanserai with two large hauzes of good water. From the'
caravanserai a large plain, covered with wheat, stretches westward ; the
drainage being also in that direction.— (Vaughan, 1890.)