'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎272v] (549/1278)

respected Mullas, whose decisions in civil disputes are accepted by the
people The land revenue is 50 kmns per gdu (250 X 250 yards), and there is
also date-tree-tax of from half a krdn to 2 krdns per tree, besides a poll-
tax of 5 to 20 krdns. The last two taxes are unpopular and, in conjunc
tion with general misgovernment resulting from the incompetence and
great a^e of the present Khan, have been responsible for much emigration
from the district in recent years. The present Khan is Jamal Khan, son
of Haidar Khan, son of Haji Khan, son of Jamal Khan Haidar Khan. The
father of the present Khan died in June 1882 at Bushire, where he was
in close imprisonment lor arrears of revenue. The Khan holds m farm
and administers several of the Shibkuh Ports to southward, which are
outside the district. For these he pays 8,000 tumam yearly-(Pe%-
St John Ross—Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
DASHT-I-BARI-Lat. 28° 32' N. ; Long. 56° 11' E. ; Elev. 3,080'.
A village in Kirman, 21 miles north-west of Deh Shaikh and about 72
miles south-east of Saidabad, on the Bandar ’Abbas-Saidabad road.
Sunplies are plentiful and, as between it and Saidabad no more are pro
curable, travellers usually take in a stock here to last the intervening
(11 st’C 0 •
In Zoroastrian times this place was a famous stronghold till it was de
stroyed by the Arabs. Subsequently it was rebuilt by a Muhammadan,
and held by a succession of chiefs, who constructed a mosque and baths,
but since the Ghazz sacked the place in one of their raids, choking the
earrison with hot ashes forced down their throats, the fort has been desert
ed and Dasht-i-Bar now forms but a centre, round which in winter the
nomad Afshars pitch their tentB.—(Newcomen, 1908.)
DASHT-I-BIRI— Lat. 29° 35' N. ; Long.(?) 61° 59 E. ; Elev.
A plain in Ears containing the village of ’Abdul (q.v.). It lies between
the passes Kutal-i-Pir Zan Kutal-i-Dukhtar, on the road from Bushire
to Shiraz. It is about 4 miles long by 2 miles wide. At the commence
ment of the plain is one of those covered water-tanks {ab-ambar)so com
mon in Persia, with delicious cool water though not very clear. This plain
is beautifully wooded on its area and sider with oaks, some of con-
siderable size, but majority are stunted specimens. It ™ us ‘ b e %° ie ' 0 ”a
siderable elevation as Rmh found the mght a-r very cold there even m
j u lj,—(Rkh—MacGregor—Stack.)
DASHTl GUL—
An lliat camping-ground in the Bakhtiari country, 42 miles from Men
Bazuft, on the track to Shushtar. No supplies ; water scanty an
ish ; fuel and grazing scanty (June).— (McSwiney, 1891.)
DASHT-I-KAUR— Lat. Long. Elev,
A village in the plain of Khisht (q.v.).
DASHT-I-KHAK— Lat. 29° 30' N. ; Long. 54° 2' E.; Elev.
A bare, uncultivated plain in Pars, east of Shir ^ z ’ 0 n iw^^tted about
of Lake Nlrlz. It has a number of ruined, fortified villages