'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎484v] (973/1278)

(i)—L at. Long. Elev. 6,010'.
A small village in the Bakhtiari country, situated on the kft lank olthe
Karun river about 4 miles above its junction with the Ab-i-Behislitaoau
A track leads hence over a stone bridge th orgh the Gurab and Bazuft
valleys to Shushtar.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
KAJ (2)— Lat. ; Long. ; Elev. 7,330'.
A stream in the Bazgiran mountains, near Du Bulan.— {Schindler.)
KARA RIZA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A summer camp in the Pish Kuh division of Luristan, on the Khaman
river, about 20 miles north-north-east from Khurramabad on the road
to Kirmanshah. There is some cultivation near the river.—(Burton,
August 1897.)
KARA WAND—
A tribe of the Dilfan group in Luristan {q.v.).
RARHTAL— Lat. ; Long. ; Elev. 370'.
A village of 50 families situated at the foot of the hills, on the road
from Rhurmuj to Shumbeh, at 1 farsakh to the east of Rishtu.—
{Winklehmer, 1891.)
RARI— Lat. 28° 18' N. ; Long. 51° 36' E. ; Elev.
A small town in the Dashti district of Ears, 26 miles south-south-east
of Rhurmuj town in the plain of the Mund river, and 20 miles from the
coast. It lies on the left bank of the Mund river. Raki, 40 years ago,
was larger than Rhurmuj town, but was not so well built ; at the time
the Rhln of the place had commenced the erection of an elaborate fort and
residence. Now there are about 300 houses, but no shops ; some trade in
sucar, tea, and piece-goods is carried on in private houses. Native ve sels
of 40 tons can ascend the Mund river almost as far as this place. A road
to Raki branches off from the main Bushire-Bandar ’Abbas road at Sana-
general direction south. This road continues to Daiyir in a general south
easterly direction.— {Butcher, 1888—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
RARULISTlN— . , ^ .
A stream in Luristan. It is one of the two important early branches of
the Ab-i-Diz which join below the Pul-i-Ruh. Rakulistan, signifying a
curly lock of hair in the Lur language, is a name locally given to a very
winding stretch of the branch draining the upper portion of the district
of Faildan, which passes by the important settlement of Baznui. From
the ZallakI village of Makhadi {vide this Guzztteer) the track descends more
than a thousand feet to the bed of the Rakulistan (6,300 feet), which stream,
now 20 yards wide and 3£ feet deep, has cut for itself a channel through
mud hills and rocky ranges regardless of natural formations, and forms
an important physical feature of this country. Owing to the low altitude
of its bed an immediate vicinity, and its narrow defiles here and there, there
are no habitations on its banks and no track along its course. The high,
flat broad mud spurs alongside form the cultivable portions on which the
llidts from neighbouring villages reside. A bridge is said once to have
existed where the ford is now, but no trace of any was found.—(Sa^er,
1890.)