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There were formerly great rice-fields in this district, but, for the last
three years, graat drought of water has prevailed.
The inhabitants are very poor, and are descended from the Kuliai,
Jelilawand, Mali and Nanekali, There are many ^ Jews, but of the old
Armenian population not a family remains. Their village has preserved^
its name of Armenidjao, but its inhabitants are Mussulmans.
Jelilav'tnd. —A small Kurdish tribe numbering some 200 to 300 houses.
The Jelilavand are sedentary. Th«ir chiefs are—Kambar Ali Khan*
Norooz Ali Khan, Majid ul Nizam, Pir Ali Khan and Khodadad Khan,
either sons or relations of the late Ain Ali Kham The Jelilavands are^
Shiah.
Mafi or Maafi {«>., exempt of taxes).
Formerly a large and powerful tribe of Kurds. Now quite dis
persed. The Mafi, Jelilavand and Nanekali, when oppressed in KazviiF
come to Kermanshah, and when oppressed in Kermanshah go to Kazvin.
But as these tribes are very poor, many families during these peregrina
tions have settled in villages belonging to other tribes, and thus it is that*
they have dwindled down to their present reduced number.
Mr. T. C. Plowden, in 1^81, speaks of some Mafi Kurds at Kalleh-
Yavar, s r me 23 miles from Keonanshah on the road to Senneh ; and I 1
have beard of some 70 families of Mafi who reside near Zobab, but the'
Mafi no longer, at least in the Kermanshah province, exist as a tribe.
They are Shiahs. ^
Nanehali. —A tribe of Kurds residing in Mian and Fusht-Derhend.
They are said to number 300 families, and supply 50 horsemen to the Gov-'
eminent. They are under the authority of Zahir ul Mulk Zengeneh, and
their chief is his son, Muktader us Sultan. They are sedentary and given
to agriculture. Their villages lie some 6 farsakhs from Kermanshah. They
are Shiahs.
Kancluleh. —Although really part of Dinavar, this village is under the*
direct jurisdiction of Zahir ul Mulk Zengeneh. It is Khalesseh (Govern
ment property), but the taxes have been remitted, in exchange for the-
expenses of the military contingent furnished by Kanduleh.
It is the residence of one of the branches of Zengeneh tribe. Close by
is Bozarud, a kalleh of Zahir ul Mulk, numbering 50 houses. The ele
vation of Bozarud is Ijfill’^O metres.
BuluJc of Kuhai.—ChAvi place, Sungur.
Governor, Azam ed Dowleh, son of Zahir ul Mulk Zengeneh.
u This district lies to the north and east of Kermanshah, and is bounded *»
north by the province of Kurdistan; east by Assadabad; south by Dinavar
and west by Pusht-i-Derbend. If commences at Gardakanu, and consists of
two valleys ; that of the Gawa rud, undulating and bare, showing a few
villages and large stretches of excellent corn land ; and thatof Shaju rud in
which lies the town of Sungur, level, well watered, and covered with villao-es,
gardens and plantations. There are said to be in this district, including
hamlets, 153 villages, of which 20 have 100 houses and upwards. The
average of the whole is about 30 houses. The people raise and export con
siderable quantities of grain, chiefly to Hamadan and the barren tracts beyond.