'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎13r] (30/1278)

AB GARMAK—
A tract of arable and pasture land in the Shushtar district, west
of the- Shatait and east of the Bait Sa’ad country. There are no habi
tations, and it belongs to thfe residents of Shushtar town.—-(Pem'tm Gulf
Gazetteer, 1908.)
ABGUNJI—
In the oil-fields 47 miles from Ahwady. Oil Company’s rest-house and a
telephone station.
Ab-i-afhus—
A mountain stream rising in the Kuh-i-Afhus {q.K.), south of Khvansar
near Akhureh-Bala and Khulg&n ; it flows south-east and joins the Zindeh
RM near Imamzadeh Isma’il (q.v.). It is 100 to 150 feet wide and 3 feet
deep, with a rapid current and a gravelly bottom ; at this point the river was
just fordable on 19th May, but a fortnight before it was unfordable.—(Re^.)
AB-I-A’LA, vide JARRAHI (river).
AB-I-ANJlRAN—
A rivulet in Fars betwfeen Firuzad and Fanaihband.— (Ross, 1875.)
AB-I-BARIK (1)—Lat. 29° 58' N. ; Long. 52° 9' E. ; Elev.
A small mud fort in Fars, 8| miles south-west of ’Aliabad (9)j and sit’d*
ated in a grassy plain, called the Pa-Bisheh-na Amnun. It is inhabited by
about 50 Persians.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
AB-I-BARlK (2)— Lat. 29° 42' N. ; Long. 52° 9' E. ; Elev.
A small hamlet of 2 or 3 hutsj occupied by road gudrds, 12 miles north
of Shiraz on the Shiraz-Isfahan road ; good drinking watet plentiful here.
No supplies ; grazing fair. The stream of the same name is crossed by the
road from Shiraz to Zargurin.— (Wilson, 1907.)
AB-I-BAZNtl, vide AB-I-DIZ.
AB-I-BAZUFT, vide BAZUFT (AB-I-).
AB-I-BEHISHTABAD—
A considerable stream in Luristan draining the whole of the Chehar Mahal
planteau. It has several sources, of which the Ab-i-Juna_qan from the
north-east, the Ab-i-Jehanbin from the north, and the Ab-i-Shalamzar
from the south-east are the chief. All three unite before the stream enters
the Tang-i-Darkash Warkash at the south-west extremity of the plateau.
Passing through this ravine it falls 600 feet in 6 miles and emerges just above
the village of Behishtabad. Two miles farther on it runs it into the river
Karun after a course of some 75 miles (vide this Gazetteer—Karun River).
AB-I-BUNIAN—
A stream in the Shulistan district of Fars, flowing in a deep ndld about
8f miles south-east of Talaspid.— (Grahame, 1908.)
AB-I-BURS—
A river rising in the Bakhtiari mountains of Luristan and formed from
the junction of the Khairsan and Ab-i-Garm rivers, south of lalard, which
joins the Ab-i-Lurdigan and falls into the Karun river below Sar-LChah