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Ivan, or aivah—
A tribe in Kirmanshah. Their country borders on Luristan towards
the south, and on the Turkish town of Mandali to the west. They furnish
no contingent of infantry or other troops, but pay mdlidt. They are culti
vators and shepherds. They are only indifferently armed. The Ivans
control the head-waters of Ab-i-Ganjir, which supplies the Turkish town
of Mandali, the people of which place pay for the use of the water.—
{T. C. Pbwden.)
Ivan valley—elev. 4 , 390 '.
A valley in Kirmanshah on a road from Mandali to Kirmanshah city
via Harunabad. Its length from north-west to south-west is about 18
miles, and its breadth varies from 1 mile to 3| miles. It is bounded north
by a range of broad hills called- Bankur and south by the Kuh Zavll. To
the south-east it runs as far as the foot of the Manisht Kuh. North-west
it runs into Zarneh. It is one of the most fertile valleys in these parts.
It is well watered by a stream rising near its south-east end, whose banks
are lined throughout the greater part of the valley with cultivation. There,
are many water mills on its banks. The range to the south is well wooded,
its ravines being densely crowded with trees. The valley forms the summer
camping-ground of the IvanI Kalhur Kurds under Khan Ahmad Khan.
They number 1,000 tents. Their winter quarters are near Mandali. There
are mounds in the valley covered with heaps of stones, but it is hard to say
whether they are remains of ancient buildings or not. There are two
roads down the valley, one on either side of the stream, both leading to
Zarneh, one of them comes from Deh Bala, and the other from Asman-
abad.—(F aughan.)
Ivan (2)—
A plain traversed by the Shushtar-Zuhab road, between Zarank and
Gllan in Kirmanshah.— (Rawlinson.)
’IVAZ, or IVAZ (Lar)—Lat. 27° 45' N. ; Long. 54° 3' E. ; Elev.
A town, one-fourth in ruins, one march from Lar, on the road thcnce-
to Flruzabad, Fars.
It is situated in a narrow, green plain among hills. It has a fort and
some good, tall houses ; also numerous db-ambars, some of which are very
large, with high-domed roofs of stone. The well water is brackish. Its
population numbers about a thousand, though it is partly uninhabited,
owing to the deaths which occurred during the famine of 1880. There are
a few merchants’ houses in Tvaz and, on the whole, the place is now in
a flourishing condition. The pla’n of Tvaz is 20 miles long and 1 mile
wide. It has a few groves of kiindr and tamarisk trees, in one of which
the large, white dome of a shrine serves as a landmark.— (Stack.)
IWATIWAND—
A tribe of the Dilfan group in Luristan (q.v.),
TZZABAD (1)— Lat. 32° 5' N. ; Long. 54° 7' E. ; Elev.
A village, 17 miles west of Yazd.- It is gradually undergoing the change
which other villages of this plain have experienced from sand-drifts. On