"دليل بلاد فارس، الجزء III، وهو يتضمن محافظة فارس، لورستان، عربستان، خوزستان، يزد، كرمانشاه، أردلان، كردستان" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٤] (٦٨٦/٤١٢)

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KHA—KHA
has a good bazar, which affords abundant supplies. It is situated in a
picturesque and romantic country, consisting of low and luxuriant
valleys or plains intersected and separated by ranges of low mountains,
green to their very summits with beautiful turf. (Poitinger.)
KHARANAK—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place on the road to Biabanak from Yazd, 45 miles north of the
latter. It has eighty houses and an excellent caravansarai, good water-
supply, but few supplies of other kinds. A range of mountains called
Kuh-i-Kharanak is said to commence here, and run in the direction of
Ardakan on the west. They are exceedingly steep and rugged, shut
ting out all view on the northern side. [MacGregor.)
Gill says this place should be Khar-Khanah, and that its elevation is
5,450 ft.
KHARANIH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 27 miles north of Yazd on the road to Herat. Bread, grain
and forage abundant; water brackish. This is possibly the same place
as above. [Christie.)
KHARGU or KHARAGU—Lat. Long. Elev.
An island in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Ears, and about 14 to
2 miles north of Kharag. It lies north and south, is 2| miles long by
half mile wide, contains about 2 square miles, is of a light sandy soil,
and is surrounded by a reef half mile wide. It has plenty of water,
but not of so good a quality as that of Kharag; and, although only
occasionally inhabited, is capable of being cultivated, and will produce
both wheat and barley during the rainy season. It was minutely sur
veyed by Captain Goodfellow, Bombay Engineers, and plans of it
furnished to Government. Khargu was the stronghold of the celebrated
Arab pirate Mir Muhana, whence he plundered all vessels going up or
down the Gulf, and issued to surprise the Dutch garrison of Kharag.
[Monteith — Bruchs.)
Khargu is barren and uninhabited, has some brushwood and a few
stunted trees on it at the north end, where indifferent water may be
obtained by digging shallow wells.
[Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
KHAR-RSHUTAR ZAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, 45 miles from Shustar on the road to Man-
gasht, inhabited principally by the Gulgirdi branch of the Janaki tribe,
and situated in a small plain and lying between Taulah and Gulgird.
[DeBocle.)
KHARSUN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A river in the Kuhgehlu country, which carries the south-west drain
age of the Kuh-i-Dina into the Karun. The two branches which form
it are crossed on the road from Isfahan to Bihbahan, the first one (Ab-i-
Derruhun) at about 12 miles west of Sisakht, and the second one
(Chaujehuu) a mile further on.
Bell writes, 8th June 1884, as follows:—
u Ab-i-Berruhun. —Barometer 24-6' / (5,870'). Passing up stream it
is forded at a point where its waters run in three channels; no channel