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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1095] (138/688)
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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LAILAH 1095
Lailah consists of quarters situated at some distance from one another, not all of which
are at present inhabited ; the total area of the settlement is estimated at less than 2
square miles, and the population at about 4,500 souls who may be classified as
follows :—
Tribe.
Section.
Houses.
Ashraf
Saqar
70
Dawasir
'Ajlan
80
Do.
Buras
70
Do.
Hamdan
60
Do.
Hijji
100
Do.
Jibarin
50
Do.
Wida'in
40
Fadhul
..
40
Khadhir (Bani) ..
..
300
1
Sabai'
Rashul
100
The usual fruit trees grow at Lailah, but there are only about 5,000 date palms ; the
principal crops are wheat, barley, millet, maize, lucerne and melons ; the wheat, millet and
maize predominate. On the east the wells are 6 to i fathoms deep ; on the west 9 to 10.
There are a few horses and the ordinary proportion, for Najd, of livestock of other
kinds. The Amir or headman of Lailah is at present Mubarak -bin-Bazah of the Buraa
Dawasir. # • t m u
A table follows of the principal quarters and other places having names in Lailah:—
Name.
Position.
Nature.
Remakks.
Ghasibah
.. Central ..
The chief inhabited
quarter of Lailah at
the present day.
Ghasibah succeeded
Mubarraz as the
principal quarter.
Hazaimi
Do.
Two date groves ..
The owners are Wida
'in Dawasir.
Jafaidrlyah
South of Ghasibah..
A considerable quar
ter.
The inhabitants are
Hamdan Dawasir.
Jiri
Close to Ghasibah
on the east side.
A deserted quarter.
It formerly belonged
to the Hijji, but
was abandoned ia
consequence of a
cholera epidemic.
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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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