'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎997] (34/688)

KAD—KAH
997
fttlier occasions of religious excitement, large re -inforcements were drafted into the
town from Baghdad City, with which there is tel graphic communication. There is
also a post office. The town is constituted as a municipality.
An honorary Naib-Karpardaz or Consular Agent is charged with the interests of
Persian subjects.
KADIPOT—
A village on the Mahrah coast of Southern Arabia. It lies a mile or two inland from,'
and to the west of, Khaisaib and contains a population of some 300 souls. There are
several wells of good water and some date and other cultivation. Salt is exported
from here.
KAF—
A village in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan [q. v.), in North-western Arabia.
KAFAIFAH—
A well in Dhafrah {q. v.), a sub-division of Trucial 'Oman.
KAFAR—
See Qafar.
KAFARAH—
A hamlet in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Samail {q. v.) in the Sultanate of 'Oman.
KAFIL ( Islands)—
Sea Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, eastern side.
KAFIR (R as-al)—■
A small headland on the Mahrah coast of Southern Arabia and situated some 15 miles
east-north -eastward from the town of Saihut.
KAFLAN—
A village of the island of Nabi Salih {q. v.), one of the Bahrain group.
KAF U RAH (A bu)—
A place about 12 miles east of the Dujailah Redoubt, which latter is 8| miles due east
of the Licorice Factory An East India Company trading post. at Kut -al-Amarah. The marsh, at the end of April, 1916, ex
tended from Abu Kafiirah to within 5 miles of 'Ali-al-Gharbi and was 12 miles wide,
with a depth in places of 5 feet.
KAHAF—
A village in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bani Ghafir {q. v.), in the 'Oman Sultanate.
KAHAF (Ras-al)—
A flat topped rocky point a few miles to the south-westward of Abu Dhabi town, in
'Oman ; it lies between Jabal Abu Kashashah and Umm-al-Majarib and is comparative
ly high.— (PeTsicw Gulf Pilot.)
KAHAFAfi—
Generally pronounced Chahafah. A well-known village in the Jabal Shammar
Principality, about mid-way between Hail and Buraidah and some 75 miles or 80 miles
from either; it is the ordinary third halting place on the Hail-Buraidah route.
The village is unwalled and contains about 60 houses of the Mas'ud section
of the Aslam division of the Shammar. Some of the wells, which are 8 to 9
fathoms deep, have good water, and the place is reputed healthy ; there are only about
10 days' rain in the year, at the beginning of winter. Dates, cereals and vegetablea
are cultivated; the best kind of date is a large yellow variety called Fankhah; palms
of all sorts are said to number about 3,000. There are the usual animals. The Turks;
after their defeat in Qasim in the summer of 1904, fell back upon Kahafab.