Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [‎398r] (798/1814)

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THE NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN PROVINCES
its capital city, as has been shown in Chapter II., runs the main
caravan route between Teheran and Baghdad; and it is in this
Kurds somewhat restricted application that travellers thereon
of Kerman- have sometimes proclaimed their peregrinations in Kurd
istan. The province borders on Turkish territory on the
west and on the Persian province of Luristan, which will hereafter be
dealt with, on the south. It may be considered the middle or divid
ing line between Northern and Southern Persia, and the mention of
it will appropriately close a discussion confined to the former branch
of mv subject. These are the Kurdish tribes of Kermanshah
Kalhur} —Partly nomad, partly sedentary. (Their garmsir, or
summer quarters, are the mountains to the north-west of the
Pusht-i-Kuh ; their sardsir, or winter quarters, are the plains
of Zohab and Kasr-i-Shirin, as far as the Turkish frontier.)
They are variously reported to be Ali Illahis and Shiahs ; and
they furnish one regiment of infantry
Sinjabi.—In Mahidasht plain, west of Kermanshah ; Ali Illahis .
Quran. —Partly nomad, partly sedentary; between Mahidasht
and Harun Nishin Khan; Ali Illahis; they furnish one
regiment of infantry, commanded by their chief .
Kerindi. —Partly nomad, partly sedentary ; between Kerind and
Harunabad; Ali Illahis; they furnish one regiment of
infantry
JBowanij and Jelalawand .— Under the sertip of the Kerindi
Zangenah or Zenjina. —Shiahs; they furnish one regiment of
infantry
Hamawand. —Sedentary .......
Sunguru and Knliahi. —Sedentary; north of Kermanshah .
NanOkuli. —Sedentary ; west of Kermanshah
Jelilarvand. —Sedentary ; east of Kermanshah
Mafi, Chubanhera, GKazil. —Sedentary .....
Hululan or Halilan. 2 —Nomads in the mountains south-east of
Kermanshah, and on the upper waters of the Kerkhah .
AhUur ....•••••••
5,000
1,500
5,000
In cereals, the province of Kermanshah is one of the richest
in Persia, more grain being cultivated than can either be con
sumed in the district, or, in the miserable state of road transport, be
1 Sir H. Rawlinson fancied from the marked Jewish cast of their countenances
that they might be descendants of the Samaritan captives who were placed in
the Assyrian city of Kalhur Halah (Sarpul-i-Zohab ?). Their present chief is
Peza Kuli Khan, of the Shahbazi clan, who is both civil governor of the Kalhur
district and sertip, or colonel of the military contingent one regiment of
infantry and some cavalry—furnished by the tribe.
2 I doubt if the Hululan ought to be included in this table, for they belong
to the Lur tribes of Luristan, who disavow any blood-connection with the Kurds.
2,000
1,000
1.500
200
2.500
300
300
4,000
1,000