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BIU—BOR
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7,800 lbs. of rice sown yearly. There are 50 looms for making karbds.
Taxes 1,043, tumdns. It was the property of Shahab-us-Saltaneh, brother
of the Ilbegi of the Bakhtiarls.— (Preece.)
BIUN, also pronounced Bum—
A village in the Faridan division of the Isfahan province, 4 miles from
Khuigan to the right of the road to Buiujud.—(Schindler.)
BIZAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, 11 miles south of Darab in Fars, on the left bank of the Rud-i-
Naqsh-i-Rustam, surrounded by cultivation and popy-fields.— {Vaughan,
1890.)
BIZAIN— Lat. Lon»g. Elev.
A village in Fars, 14 miles north-north-west of Shiraz, on the road to
Behbehan. The village is small and walled. (Hopkins, 1903.)
BIZANAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of cliffs running down from Kamarij, Fars, and ending near
Jireh on the northern bank of the Dalaki river, Jireh being about 4 miles
off on the southern tank.— (Durand.)
BlZDAN— Lat. 28° 38' N.; Long. 54° 28' E. ; Elev.
A village in Fars, 150 miles east-south-east of Shiraz, and 14 miles south
west of Darab. It is situated in a plain almost enclosed within mountains.
Near the village is a bridge of eight large, and three small arches over a
stream, which in winter must be considerable.— (Ouseley.)
BIZEH— Lat. 27° 56' N.; Long. 54° 23' E.; Elev.
A village in Laristan, about 26 miles from Lar. It is approached by a
track which branches off to the north-west from the main Lar-Darab road,
just north of the Garden-i-Kuh-i-Namak, from which it is 5£ miles distant
and from which its blue-domed imdmzddeh is clearly visible. The popu
lation is from 150 to 200.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
BORAZJUN— Lat. 29° 16' N. ; Long. 51° 15' E.; Elev. 250'.
The princicipal place in the Dashtistan district of Fars, and the seat of
the Khan who, under the Governor of Fars, rules the greater part of that
district, Borazjun is situated about 28 miles north-east of Bushire
town.
History .—The ruling family of the Khans are descended from a certain
Mulla Muhammad, who came from the district of Kam Firuz, became a
servant of the then dynasty, married the Khan’s daughter, and became
chief in Borazjun.
Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh some years ago took over the government from
his aged father. He and his father have acquired great wealth from black
mail on the caravans passing through Borazjhn, especially from monopolies
of the sale of grain to animals. He had to take to the Giseh Khan moun
tains when Ijlal-ud-Dauleh, the Wazir Minister. of Fars, attacked the chief of Dash
tistan, but returned later. He is maried to a daughter of Isma’il Khan of
Shabankareh, but the bitterest blood-feud reigns between him and this Khan
on account of the district of Zira, which formerly was farmed by one of the
Khans of Borazjun, but has for 15 years been let by Nizam-us-Sultaneh to the