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INHABITANTS
plain, and, in summer, Wazneh highlands. Warlike semi-nomads.
(See below under BiTbas.)
Mamash (2.000 families ?). About Passova (NE. of Lahjan plain),
between Suj Bulaq and Lesser Zab, and in Raniyeh plain ; in summer
at Wazneh. (See below under Silbas.)
Piran (900 families?). Lahjan and Eaniyeh plains and Wazneh
highlands. Semi-nomadic. Warlike robbers.
Pishdir. In mountains south of Ser Desht; descend to Marga
plain ; a small tribe^ but with a reputation for being fierce and
warlike.
BiTbas. Given by Sykes as a semi-nomadic tribe of 400 families,
on the Turco-Persian frontier near Raniyeh. In Mil.
E. T. A., vol. iii, 'Bilbas' is apparently used as a general term for
a number of tribes on both sides of the frontier in the region of
Wazneh ; and the agha of a section of Mengur (see above), at
Elwatan, is described as 4 theoretically head of all the Bilbas The
Mamash, who in Mil. Report on E. T. A. are placed under the
heading ^ Bilbas Kurdsare said by Soane to be a section of the
Mukri of the Suj Bulaq district.
JBalihi (1,000 rifles ?). East of Eowanduz.
Pirastini (1,100 families?). North-east of Eowanduz. Sedentary.
SurJchi (800 families?). West of Eowanduz on both sides of the
Great Zab. Partly sedentary, partly nomadic.
Baradost (2,000 families ?). In the Baradost district some twenty-
live miles NNW. of Eowanduz.
SMrwan (1,800 families?). North-westerly neighbours of the
Baradost. Sedentary ; warlike.
Zebar (30 villages?). In the district of that name west of the
Great Zab and of Baradost. Warlike. At feud with the Sheikhs of
Berzan.
JBerzan (^50 families?). North of Zebar on the left bank of the
Zab. Warlike. The Sheikhs of Berzan are holy and therefore
influential.
Shemsdinan (20 villages?). In the Shemsdinan district, under
the Sheikh of Neri, who derives considerable importance from his
hereditary holiness.
Ilerihi. ^ A large, widely-scattered group of nomads. Sections of
the Heriki range in the country west, north, and east of Shemsdinan.
Branches of the Heriki are found near Mosul and also about Erzerum.
The Heriki are apparently rather a low class of Kurds. They generally
move in small detachments.
Shekah (6,000 families?). On the Persian frontier north of Diza.
A confederation of several semi-nomadic tribes. A southern, nomad