'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎394r] (792/1278)

HAD—HAF
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It is crossed by 3 passes—the Rah-i-Duzd or Robber’s Road, to the
^ ardaVan ’ fche Tang-i-Zangu {q.v.) which lies below the peak
Kuh Raghan, and the Tang-i-Khur, which is the easternmost of the three.—
{Butcher, 1888.)
HADAKU or HADKUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the coast of the Dashti district of Ears, immediately south
of Kalat. It contains 30 houses inhabited by Kabkanis, who are fishermen
and growers of dates and corn.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908 )
HADD, vide SHATT-AL-’ARAB.
HADDAMEH (Village, vide JARRAHI (River).
HAFFAR (Canal)—
An artificial canal, forming the short reach by which the river Karun
after the out take of the Bahmanshlr, discharges its water into the Shatt-
al- Arab. Colonel Bell says that three-fourths of the water of the river
Karun comes this way. The canal is between 2 and 3 miles Ion- 400
yards wide and has a depth of from 3 to 4 fathoms. The head^of the
canal where the Bahmanshir takes out of the Karun is 60 miles above the
bar outside the Shatt-al- Arab, 40 miles above the entrance to that estuary
at fiau, and 20 miles below the Turkish port of Basrah. When this canal
was cut no one knows Mr. Watson, in his History of Persia, says it was
cut by Alexander the Great in order to avoid the necessity of sailing down
the Karun into the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , but there appears to be no ground for this
hypothesis. Its construction was presumably intended to open commu
nication from the Karun to the Shatt-al-’Arab, and thus promote trade
between Arabistan and the then existing predecessors of the Turkish
fi° r ! S ^ f Srah f! 1 ? ^ a g hd ^ d - Some authorities on the other hand believe
that the Shatt-al- Arab once flowed into the Karun by this channel instead
of vice versa as at present, and that the united river then found’ the sea
by the Bahmanshir channel : this, however, does not appear to be a likelv
hypothesis. y
On the north banks stands the town of Muhammareh {q.v ) on the southern
side are the ruins of an old Persian fort where 60 years ago’the Shaikh used
to reside, and which, in co-operation with larger works on the northern
banks, attempted to dispute the entrance of the river with the British
m 1857. It was very speedily silenced and knocked to pieces by the British
pns In 1891 infantry and artillery barracks were built upon this site
by the Persian Government, but these are now used as the doctor’s quarters
and quarantine station respectively.— {Bell — Curzon, 1889 War Office
Military Report, 1905—Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.) *
HAFIZABAD—
A hamlet in Kirman, 96| miles from the town of that name on the road
to Yazd. It contains 8 houses, and has a qandt of sweet water. {Wood
HAF-SHEID—
These oil springs are situated in the heart of Luristan at a distance of 5
miles from the Imanzadeh of Haf-Sheid, or 72 miles, from Shushtar.