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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1087] (124/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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KUWAIT PRINCIPALITY
1087
Name.
Banayah
Bard-halq (Ras)
Khafji (Ras-al-)
Position.
Kharais (D6hat-al)
Khor (Ardh-al-) .
Nature.
In Ardh-al-Khor,
about 2 miles inland
from the sea at a
point about 7
miles south ol Ras-
az-Zor. Khor-al-
'Ami is to the north
and Khor-al-Mufat-
tah to the south of
it. (See Ardh-al-
Khor below.)
22 miles north-north-
west of Hadd-al-
Misha'ab.
15 miles north-
north-west of
Hadd-al-Misha'ab
at the north end
of the Sudah Dis
trict.
From Ras-as-Safani-
yah to Ras-at-Tana-
jib. It is in the
Sudah District.
On the coast, begin
ning 2 or 3 miles
south of Ras-az-
Zor and reaching
southwards for a
few miles.
A dark coloured saddle
hill, about 80 feet
high, with salt de- i
posits called Mam- ,
lakah in the neigh- :
bourhood.
A low, white, sandy
point.
A sandy joint
Bay.
A tract
Remaeks.
nity is a pearl
bank known as
Mukalaf. Balbul ia
adojoined on the
south by another bay
called Dohat Ba-
laibil.
Properly called Ban-
yat-al-Khor to dis
tinguish it from
Banlyat-az-Zor. and
Baniyat-ad-Dasht on
the coast further to
northward. Chart
No. 2374-2837-B
contains a view of it.
Off the cape is a pearl
bank bearing the
same name.
Off the point is a pearl
bank bearing the
same name. The
mouth of the Maqta'
stream is immediate
ly to the north of
this point.
In this tract, several
miles south of Ras-
az-Zor, are two
creeks ; one to the
north is called Khor-
al-'Ami and vessels
cannot enter it, but
the other to the
south, known as
Khor-al-Mufattah, ia
open and is frequent
ed by fishing boats.
Banayah (q. v.)
stands between them
in Ardh-al-Khor.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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