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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [359v] (723/982)
The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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708
NAS-NAU
within three yards of each other, the distance from one pair to the next
being about 30 yards, the workings being thus run towards each other
from each pair. The usual way is to have but one shaft, about 15 yards
from the previous one.— {Preece, 1892).
NASSAU—
A sub-division of the Ka’b tribe {q.v.)
N A TH AREH —vide MUHAMMAREH District.
NAUBANDAGAN (1)—Lat. 28° 49' N. Long. 53° 51'E. Elev. 4,280'.
A village in Ears, 96 miles from Shiraz and 13 miles south-east of Fasa,
and half a mile from the road thence to Darab. It is a large, prosperous,
walled village of 700 houses, and about 3,500 people. The village
owns 88 oxen for tillage, 4,000 sheep and 4,000 donkeys, but no mules.
Carts could be brought here from Fasa without any difficulty. Water is
plentiful along the whole road.— (Preece, 1892.)
NAUBANDAGAN (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
The ruins of a city in the plain called Sahra-i-Bahram, near Kazarhn in
Fars.— (De Bode.)
NAUBANJAN— vide NAUBANDAGAN (2).
NAUGURlN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 31 £ miles from Isfahan, § mile before the ruined bridge over
the Zindeh Rud (Pul-i-Kalla) in the Linjan district.— {Schindler.)
NAUJIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, with a large artificial mound and palm-trees, 18 miles north
of Farrashband, Fars. It was deserted in l%'ll.—-{Abbott~St. John.)
NAUKAL— Lat. L ng. Elev.
A village in the Dashtisi an district of Fars, half-way between Shif and
Borazjun. It consists of mud huts lying amongst cultivation, and has a
well of brackish water.— {Trotter ; Newcomen, 1905.)
NAUKAN— Lat. 28° N. (?) Long. 51 0 52' E. (?) Elev.
A village in the Dashti district, about 2 miles north by west of Bardistan
in the middle of the Bardistan valley. There are 15 houses of ’Amranis
and Faqlha. They own 3 horses, 20 donkeys, 10 cattle, 300 sheep and
goats and 1,000 date trees.—(Persian Gulj Gazetteer, 1908.)
NAUKAND— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,290'.
A camping-ground in Kirman on the Bandar ’Abbas Saidabad road,
about 38 miles south-south-east of tie latter place, on the southern edge
of the great Kavir. Water is plentiful but brackish.— {Newcomen, 1905.)
NiUKAL GAZI— Lat. 29° 9' N. Long. 51° 3'E. Elev.
A village in the Angali district of Fars, 8 miles south-south-east of
Mehmadshahi and 10 miles north-east of Shif. It contains 40 houses
inhabited by Persians (tribes not ascertainable) who cultivate wffieat and
barley, and own 50 donkeys, 200 sheep and a few horses.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.) '
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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).
Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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