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BIRAISMUN (Birkeh)—
. A place in-the Lingeh district {q.v.).
B1RAQ— Lat. 27° 41' N. ; Long. 540° 26' E. ; Elev.
A village in Laristan, 3| miles from Lar, on the road to Bandar ’Abbas.
It contains about 100 small houses, neatly built and plastered with mud.
Biraq forms a good halting-place, if it is not desired to enter the town of
f Lar. A small range of hills to the south of the village bears the same
name.— {Butcher, 1888.).
BIRGHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Ardakan district of Ears, 5J miles south-east of Ardakan
town. The village rs close to the left bank of the Ardistan stream, and
contains 60 houses. It has a quantity of cultivation and some tall popular
trees. Its Mdl-i-Dlvanl is estimated at 100 tumdns—{Durand from Dr.
Andreas’ notes — Vaughan, 1891.)
BIRGUN—
A hamlet in the Bakhtiari country, situated in the deep valley in the
vicinity of the Kuh-i-Rang mountain, and 4 miles from Pir Sar Sahid.—
{Sawyer, 1890.)
BIRl BALA—
A ruined serai, 3 miles west of Chehar Birkeh, on the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar
road. Water from one open tank. No population.— {Wilson and Cruik-
shank, 1907.)
BIRINJAN GORGE—
At the south-east end of the Chamalgir mountain of Luristan the Saimarreh
river turns south out of the Radbar district. Here is the Birinjan gorge.
To either side of the river rise tremendous cliffs of castellated rock, sheer
to 1,500 feet. The gorge is traversed by no road and is quite impassable.
North of it lies the stony plateau of Kaleh Hatim and the huge wall of the
Lara mountain. The surroundings are wild and desolate, and the scenery
of rugged grandeur.—(B.)
BIRIN JZAR—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , 74 miles from Khurramabad to Dizful via the Gialan
- pass, the walls of which are only about 4 feet high. The stream, Fariab,
passes near here. The mountain opposite Gialan is called Kabir Kuh, to the
left of which are the Sagwand summer quartern. Great quantities of loose
stone on the road here. A good stream, flowing north-west and fordable
runs between this and Razeh, called Ab-i-Zal. It is 2| miles from the
northern foot of this pass ; 36 miles from Nasrabad. There used to be a
telegraph office, on the Khurramabad-Dizffil line, but the line was
destroyed by Lurs and has not since been restored.—
BIRlZ— Lat. 27° 53' N. ; Long. 54° 14' E. ; Elev.
A large inhabited serai, and a smaller one used by Lar merchants only,
and a small village close to serai. Situated on a plain 4 miles broad north
and south, and 13 miles long east and west ; surrounded by.hills, and drain
ed north and then west to Binaru by a small stream flowing through the