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	Field Museum 'reuniting' scattered collections from ancient Iraq site
		Kish is one of the world's oldest cities and site of the earliest evidence of wheeled transport.
		Initial excavations at Kish centered on the Uhaimir mound, the location of a famous ziggurat, which is a temple tower in the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
		Later, workers turned to a cemetery, where they uncovered Kish's famous chariot burials, wherein chariots pulled by teams of live oxen were buried alongside high status individuals to provide a means of transport in the afterlife.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/fm-fm102204.php (0 words)

	The Persian Gulf - Kish Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kish is lies between the 53 degrees and 53 minutes,to 54 degrees and 4 minutes of the eastern longitude of the Greenwich Meridian, and 26 degrees and 29 minutes, and 26 degrees and 35 minutes of the northern latitude.
		The distance from Kish to Tehran is 1052 km by air and 1600 km by land.
		Those who were living on Kish Island tens of centuries ago, with their Iranian inherent intelligence in building aqueducts-under ground canal-mostly known as Qanat or Kariz-stroked the coralline layers of Kish Island in search of potable water, and were rewarded with "fresh water" or "sweet water" as the people say here.
	www.thepersiangulf.org /cities/kish.html (1184 words)

	`. Kish Shygan Hotel `. About Kish .'.
		Kish coast is one of the exceptional coasts suitable for aquatics both in winter and summer.
		Kish Island is a resort island lapped by the sheltered waters of coral-edged lagoons, home to many of the world's spices of reef fish.
		Kish Island lies like a pearl across the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf and is a heaven of peace and tranquility fringed by sandy beaches and coral reefs vivid with colorful fish.
	www.kishshyganhotel.com /eng/aboutkish.htm (3221 words)

	Iran Access Web Directories
		Kish is a coral island and clear azure waters surround it.
		The Kish Islands ancient city, Harireh, the ruins of which remain in the center of the northern coast, most likely belongs to the late Sasanid and early Islamic era.
		In the first half of the Pahlavis reign in Iran, apart from internal turmoil, the repercussions of the world wars and the reduction in the volume of commercial exchanges and international trade led to the ever-more weakening of Persian Gulfs strategic whereabouts and that of its islands.
	www.iranaccess.com /iraninfo/cities/kish1.htm (431 words)

	Kish Island, Third Persian Carpet Persian Exhibition (Festival) at Kish Island IRAN May 3 - 8 2005
		Kish Island measuring 91.5 kilometers in area is situated 18 kilometers south of Iran's southern coast and about 300 kilometers away from the port city of Bandar Abbas.
		Kish coast is one of the exceptional coasts suitable for aquatics both in winter and summer.
		Kish island has over 50 km cycling track, which stretches all around the island.Cycling is a popular sport in Kish and public cycling days are arranged by K.F.Z.O. in order to encourage people to cycle.
	www.oldcarpet.com /kishcarpet/kish_island_en.htm (635 words)

	Kish Free Zone Organization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kish horseback riding club is located in the northern section of the island, in the Olympic village.
		Horse-racing is a favorite sport in Kish and races are held throughout wintertime.Kish horseback Riding club has a clinic.
		Kish Sports Complex has six tennis courts and an international tennis stadium, etc. It is located in the Olympic village at the northern part of the Island.
	www.kish.ir /open.asp?p=sports.htm&m=sport (330 words)

	Kish Free Zone Organization
		Kish Island has a unique situation in the strategic Persian Gulf region among tens of large and small islands.
		Kish has a variety of tourist attractions that can be of much interest to a wide category of tourists.
		Kish Island as a national pilot for Iranian ICT
	www.kish.ir (0 words)

	Iranica.com - KISH ISLAND
		Kish is mentioned in itineraries, for example on the route from Shiraz to India and as a further destination appended to the Baghdad to Basra route, as related by H®amd-Alla@h Mostawfi (Le Strange, p.
		According to EstÂakòri however, the coastal area opposite Kish was known as Sif ¿Oma@ra, or "coast of the Julanda", and he attributed their stronghold, Qala@t-e ebn ¿Oma@ra, to the Julanda (Schwarz, p.
		During the Qajar era ownership of Kish changed hands several times and in 1972 the Kish Development Organization was founded with a view to turning the island into a major tourist resort.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/ot_grp5/ot_kish_20040224.html (1245 words)

	Iran Free Zones- Kish Nature
		Kish is a coral island, shaped as a result of the expansion of corals and other organic substances on anticlines, salt domes and magma.
		According to a survey, Kish's average annual rainfall reaches a meager 170 millimeters, 82 per cent of which pours down in winter, 10 per cent in autumn and the remaining in spring and summer The cloud precipitates of autumn and spring are short-lived showers, while in winter, they are steady drizzles.
		As Kish is engulfed by water on all sides, it is virtually impossible for the animals-but birds-to migrate from/to the island, an issue dramatically reducing the number of animals on the island.
	www.iranworld.com /Home/hvg-r037.htm (1016 words)

	Kish, Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kish or Uhaimir ("the red" - because of its ziggurat's red bricks), was one of the twelve city-states of ancient Sumer civilization, located on an ancient branch of the Euphrates river 10 km east of Babylon.
		Schedules of the Sumerian kings indicates that the kingship, after the Flood, descended from heaven again to Kish, and not as previously to Eridu near Ur.
		One of the earlier kings in Kish was Etana who "stabilized all the lands" securing the 1st dynasty of Kish and establishing rule over ancient Sumer and some of its neighbors.
	www.atlastours.net /iraq/kish.html (147 words)

	SalamIran - Province of Kish
		Kish has a long history of about 3, 000 years, being called under various names such as Kamtina, Arakia, Arakata, and Ghiss in the course of time.
		Kish is a place apart: it has its own distinctive flag, and even the vehicle registration plates are marked in both English and Persian, unlike anywhere else in Iran.
		The bulk of developments are planned to be completed by 1994, but whatever exist in Kish in terms of facilities for tourists in addition to its beautiful and fascinating seashores, marvelous natural sightseeing, and scenery, make it a unique paradise of tourists.
	www.salamiran.org /CT/provinces/kish.html (735 words)

	A conversation with Leslie Kish
		Leslie Kish was born in Poprad, Hungary in 1910.
		Leslie Kish was hired by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1940 and in 1941 moved to the Division of Program Surveys of the Department of Agriculture.
		Kish is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.ss/1032209665 (860 words)

	Geography of Iran: Kish Island (In Persian Gulf)
		Kish is mentioned in itineraries, for example on the route from Shiraz to India and as a further destination appended to the Baghdad to Basra route, as related by Hamd-Allâh Mostawfi (Le Strange, p.
		According to Estakhri however, the coastal area opposite Kish was known as Sif 'Omâra, or "coast of the Julanda", and he attributed their stronghold, Qalât-e ebn 'Omâra, to the Julanda (Schwarz, p.
		Furthermore, one of the rulers (malek) of Kish, with the good Persian name of Jamid, is known to have built a palace there, called Qasár-e ayvân, modeled on that of the Buyid ruler 'Azad-al-Dawla at Naband, near Sirâf.
	www.iranchamber.com /geography/articles/kish.php (1272 words)

	Kish Free zone
		The investigation into places of birth shows that 1400 people were born in Kish and the rest born in various other places of the country who mainly traveled to the island in the last ten years.
		The population of Kish went from 8047 in 1996 to 16501 in 2000 (that means more than 100% population increase in 4 years) shows how Kish has had the power to attract and keep immigrants in the last years.
		At the last population count in Kish, the rate of education of the older residence (7 years and up) was 93%, older ladies 94%, older men 92%.
	www.kishfreezone.org /lives/live.htm (193 words)

	Ancient Kish (Ukhaimir) in Sumer [Iraq]
		Situated on an ancient branch of the Euphrates River 80 kilometers south of Baghdad in Iraq, Kish was one of the city-states of the Sumer civilization.
		Occupation began in the Jemdet Nasr phase and the city was of major importance in the early 3rd millennium BC.
		Kish is the collective name for at least 40 tells (mounds) arranged in an oval measuring 1.5 by 5 miles.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Kish_Ukhaimir.html (350 words)

	Kish Island Free Zone
		Kish Free Zone Organization as a government of kish administered by its own authority and organized as a company with an autonomous legal status that the capital of the company belongs to the government of the Islamic republic of Iran.
		According to the arrangement of kish free zone organization, six deputies of economy, tourism, development, planning and programming, social, administrative and financial plus five other management of public and international affairs, legal affaires, inspection and solving complaints security, auditing along with the affiliated companies shaping up the organization.
		Permit issue for all manner of the social, commercial, economic and administrative activities, are within boundaries of kish free zone and rest solely with the respective authority of the island.
	www.kishgoldengate.com /Kishilnd.html (365 words)

	Tourism in Kish Island
		Kish Island is a resort island lapped by the sheltered
		Kish soil is made of coral with a silvery
		Kish coast is one of the least dangerous coasts in the world.
	www.kishisland.com /en/tourism/index.html (344 words)

	Kish Island travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kish Island is a beautiful island and touristic resort located on the north east of the Persian Gulf (Khalij-e Fars) about 17 km (10.2 miles) from the southern offshore of the mainland Iran.
		Kish is at a distance of 1200 km from Isfahan, Iran’s historic and tourist destination city which attracts hundreds of thousands of international visitors each year.
		Kish is a trade free zone and many Iranians and foreigners come here to buy duty free cloths, electronic goods, cosmetic etc. There are many big, modern shopping centres, most of them in the east part of the island.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kish_Island (1738 words)

	Kish - Crystalinks
		Kish [kish] (Tall al-Uhaymir) was an ancient city of Sumer, now in central Iraq.
		While he makes an attempt to display that he could be independent, by defying Kish's authority, his display is brief and in the end he comes back and pledges his fealty.
		From what little we know of the Empire of Kish it appears to have operated a fairly centralized bureaucracy to run a system of tithe and tax that primarily dealt in agricultural goods and animals.
	www.crystalinks.com /kish.html (386 words)

	Steve Kish's Publications
		Kish, S.A. and and Odom, A.L., 1999, In search of Precambrian basement in the Piedmont of.the southern Appalachians __ all that is granulite is not Grenville, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.
		Kish, S.A., 1982, The application of potassium_argon dating of slates to the study of the metamorphic history of the southern Appalachian Piedmont and Blue Ridge, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.
		Kish, S.A., and Fullagar, P.D., 1982, The nature of autochthonous and parautochthonous rocks of the Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont belts of the southern Appalachians: geologic and geochronological studies of windows, Annual Meeting Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.
	www.gly.fsu.edu /fac/kish/publ.php (1463 words)

	Kish Visitors, Third Persian Carpet Persian Exhibition (Festival) at Kish Island IRAN May 3 - 8 2005
		Kish Island is a resort island lapped by the sheltered waters of coral-edged lagoons, home to many of the world's spices of reef fish.
		Snorkeling in the Kish Island is amongst the best in the world, whilst scuba diving offers an even more spectacular insight of life beneath in waters.
		It is not surprising that Kish Island attracts visitors from all over Middle East, and increasingly nowadays, from other countries around the world.
	www.oldcarpet.com /kishcarpet/visitor_en.htm (278 words)

	WelCome to kish university WebSite
		Kish University, affiliated to Kish Free Zone Organization, was established in 1996 on Kish Island with special permit by Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technology, Islamic Rep. of Iran.
		Quantom Information Seminar will be held in Kish University from 7-11 september 2007
		For viewing the information about university courses and sister universities you can see the Admission link in the main menu.
	www.kish.ac.ir /site/Home.aspx (0 words)

	Kish - Find Kish items for sale on eBay!
		Her dolls are generally limited editions, as usually only 500 or 700 of each Kish doll is released, although as few as 250 are produced on occasion.
		Kish contends that this allows her to remain active in the process of creating dolls.
		Kish tends to unconsciously incorporate features of family members and friends as she sculpts a new doll, even across ethnic boundaries.
	popular.ebay.com /ns/Dolls-Bears/Kish.html (366 words)

	William Kish
		William was born on 16 May 1828, the son of Thomas Kish and Elizabeth Dobson, at the Wear Tavern, on Prospect Row, Sunderland, County Durham.
		The family appears to be in the process of migrating their name from Kershaw to Kish, as documentation continues to be Kershaw, while publicly they use the name Kish.
		Mr Kish was in the best of health up to Friday last on which day after leaving the county court where he had been hearing a case in which he was interested he was suddenly taken ill and had to be removed home.
	members.cox.net /ghgraham/williamkish.html (656 words)

	Tourist attractions at KISH
		These have proven to be of prime value and are therefore scheduled to be put to display in one of the island’s cultural center museums.
		Such discoveries in Harireh, for example, are kept in a safe place and include a variety of Iranian and foreign coins belonging to various historical stages, copper, bronze and clay containers and dishes, early Islamic era manuscripts in the Kufic language, grave stones and a cannon which have been put to public display.
		Traditional water reservoirs were utilized in Kish similar to other parts of the country where shortage of drinking water is evident.
	www.iran-export.com /freezone/kish/13.htm (754 words)

	eBay Store - connectibles: Kish Dolls (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kish limited editions sell out relatively quickly, so be sure to choose your favorites while we still show them in stock.
		Kish Spirit of the Seasons NRFB Autumn Fall Doll LE 500
		Kish LE 2005 doll Show n' Tell Riley NRFB dressed,puppy
	stores.ebay.com /connectibles/Kish-Dolls.html (357 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia - Kish - AOL Research & Learn
		In the early 3d millennium B.C., Kish was a Semitic city.
		Although it was one of the provincial outposts of Sumerian civilization, it had a cultural style of its own.
		There is an excavated palace of Sargon I of Agade, a native of Kish, and a great temple built by Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus in the later Babylonian period.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/kish/20051206185709990030 (166 words)

	Amazon.com: Kish Kash: Music: Basement Jaxx (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With all its genre-defying tricks, Kish clearly owes a debt to the millenarian bootleg craze, but these songs are more than novelty mash-ups, they’re songs, and this is an album you’ll play years from now.
		"Kish Kash" is, in my view, the duo's most consistent joint to date, and it easily eclipses their last two efforts.
		Kish Kash, by their previous standards, is the most produced, but that has not stolen any of their creativity.
	www.amazon.com /Kish-Kash-Basement-Jaxx/dp/B0000DD56E (1791 words)

	Meridian Magazine :: Articles : “Kish” – A Personal Name
		Thus, King Kish was apparently one of the Jaredite monarchs.
		For example, the name of the Jaredite king Kish, as well as his birthday, birthplace, and the day he ascended to the throne, may have been deciphered.
		The component Kish is also evident in the compound names of two other Jaredite kings, Riplakish and Akish.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /articles/050217kish.html (615 words)

	www.myspace.com/kishmauve
		The pair met James and Fraser on the local music scene in London and drawing on collective influences ranging from Talking Heads and The Pixies, to Kate Bush and early Eurythmics, the group began collaborating and soon Kish Mauve was born.
		The band released a three track EP in the summer of 2005 on Sunday Best, which soon sold out And that same year their breathtaking live show raised the roof at Glastonbury in the only beer tent left standing.
		Kish Mauve are recording their album at the moment,keep checking back to find out about the next gig dates which will be early next year!
	www.myspace.com /kishmauve (1186 words)

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