"Khorremabad, a town of
Persia, capital of the province of Luristan, in
33° 32' N., 48° 15' E., and at an elevation of
4250 ft. Pop. about 6000. It is situated 138 m.
W.N.W. of Isfahan and H7m. S.E. of Kermanshah, on
the right bank of the broad but shallow Khorremabad
River, also called Ab-i-istaneh, and, lower down,
Kashgan Rud. On an isolated rock between the town
and the river stands a ruined castle, the
Diz-i-siyah (black castle), the residence of the
governor of the district (then called Samba) in
the middle ages, and, with some modern additions,
one of them consisting of rooms on the summit,
called Felek ul aflak (heaven of heavens), the
residence of the governors of Luristan in the
beginning of the l9th century. At the foot of the
castle stands the modern residence of the
governor, built c. 1830, with several
spacious courts and gardens. On the left bank of
the river opposite the town are the ruins of the
old city of Samha. There are a minaret 60 ft.
high, parts of a mosque, an aqueduct, a number of
walls of other buildings and a four-sided
monolith, measuring 9} ft. in height, by 3 ft.
long and 2} broad, with an inscription partly
illegible, commemorating Mahmud, a grandson of
the Seljuk king Malik Shah, and dated A.h. 517,
or 519 (a.d. 1148-1150). There also remain ten
arches of a bridge which led over the river from
Samha on to the road to Shapurkhast, a city
situated some distance west."
The International Cyclopędia A
Compendium Of Human Knowledge Revised With
Large Additions Editor-In-Chief H. T. Peck,
Ph.D., L.H.D. Professor In Columbia University
Associate Editors Selim H. Peabody, Ph.D., Ll.D.
Charles F. Richardson, A.M. President Of The
University Of Illinois Professor In Dartmouth
College In Fifteen Volumes Vol. Ix New York Dodd,
Mead & Company 1900