"دليل بلاد فارس، الجزء III، وهو يتضمن محافظة فارس، لورستان، عربستان، خوزستان، يزد، كرمانشاه، أردلان، كردستان" [ظ‎‎٥‎٧] (٦٨٦/١١٩)

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BAN—BAN
look, and the Khan's residence is fine and well furnished. From
Banah it is 7 hours to Sardasht. There are two roads to Sulimania
(50 miles). [Gerard.)
Near to Banah the road traverses a mud flat—a depression in the
plain some 2 miles in width—that would form a serious obstacle to the
passage of guns or wagons. A causeway has been raised across it,
which is in process (October 1875) of being paved.
This morass—which it really is in winter—may be turned by a long
detour over a rough hill skirt. [Napier.)
BANAK—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village, 3 or 4 miles to north-west of Kangun, on the coast
of Fars. [Constable — Stijfe—Persian Gulf Pilot.')
BANARU—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in the open desert, 135 miles from Shiraz in Fars on the
road to Mughu Bay. No supplies. Water from wells. [Jones.)
BANAWAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, on the right bank of the river Dizful. It is
celebrated for its gardens and rich arable land. [Layard.)
BAN AW AR NAZIR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A river in Khuzistan, on the right bank of the river Dizful, cele
brated for its gardens and rich arable soil. [Layard.)
BAND Amir—L at. Long. Elev.
A village in the Kulwar district, Ears, north-east of Shiraz.
It is a populous place, divided and undermined in several places
by dams and subterraneous channels [Jcandts) for supplying wells
with water. It takes its name from a dam [band) erected across
the river Kur at this point by Azad-ud-Daulat, a former prince,
Governor of Fars, and the river is sometimes called by the same name.
There is very extensive cultivation of rice in this plain.
The Band, which gives its name to both the village and the river,
deserves attention, from its being a specimen of the hydraulic art
of the Persians. The river over which it is constructed runs in so
deep a bed that it is generally useless for the purposes of navigation;
and the object of the Band seems to be to give the stream a fresh and
stronger impetus, to throw it into a more extensive bed, and thus
to distiibute it by minor channels into the adjacent cultivation. The
and has been built immediately upon the superior angle of what
oiiginally must have been a natural fall, and consists of a straight
ridge of thirteen arches: to this bridge the river flows in a slow
current; but immediately on passing through the arches it falls
abiuptly over the inclined wall. The principal art of the architect
must have been exerted in the construction of this wall; and although
the whole work is going to decay, yet, considering the body of water
which is constantly flowing against it, and the length of time it
as existed (not less than seven hundred years), the principle of
its construction must be a good one.
[Morier — Malcolm — Kinneir — Ouselei/.)