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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1139] (188/688)
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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MAH—MAH
1139
Name.
Position.
On which
bank
situated.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Resources.
Mahram ..
3 miles below Jurakh
Do. ..
300 houses of
Bani Ruwahah.
70 camels, 100 don
keys, 100 cattle, 800
sheep and goats
and 7,000 palms.
Saih
3 miles below Mah
ram.
Do. ..
150 houses of
Bani Ruwahah.
iO camels, 40 don
keys, 50 cattle, 400
sheep and goats
and 300 palms.
Bai'ah
2 miles below Saih
Do. ..
40 houses of
Bani Ruwahah.
20 camels, 30 don
keys, 20 cattle, 200
sheep and goats
and 1,000 palms.
Khala
3 miles below Bai'ah
Left
10 houses of
Bani Ruwahah.
20 camels, 20 don
keys, 15 cattle, 100
sheep and goats and
400 palms.
The junction of this valley with
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
'Andam at Ghiryain takes place about 3 miles
below Khala.
The Bani Ruwahah of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mahram belong to the Wilad 'Ali, Wilad 'Ayish, Wilad
Barkat, Wilad Hamad, Bani Hamim and Wilad Salim sections of the tribe ; and the
total number of the inhabitants is about 4,500 souls.
MAHRAQAH—
A well of drinkable but brackish water in the Zor district {q .v.) of the Kuwait Princi
pality. This well is about 2 miles from that of Mdairah and some 17 miles from Jahrah.
MAHRIQAH—
A hamlet in the 'Aridh district {q .v.), of central Arabia.
MAHRIZ (A ulad)—•
One of the tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate {q .v.) of which the faction is indeterminate
or has not been ascertained. The Aulad (or Bani) Mahriz are held by some authorities
to be a section of the Rahbiyin {q .v.).
MAHTAB—
A station on the Hejaz Railway {q .v.), 677-90 kilometres from Damascus
MAHUHI (U mm-al)—
A tract in ths Samawah Qadha {q .v.) of 'Iraq.
MAHUR (Halat Abu)—
A village which at high water is surrounded by the sea, but at low tide is connected
with Muharraq Island in Bahrain. It is distant about 200 yards from the south side
of Muhurraq Town and consists of some 500 houses and huts inhabited by Sunnis of
varioustribes, viz., AlBin-Maqla (100 houses),'Utub of the Jalahimah section (5houses),
A1 Musallam (5 houses), low caste Arabs (50 houses), free ne roes (140 houses),
and negro slaves living apart from their masters (200 houses). At the south end of th e
island stands the 4 bastioned fort of Abu Mahur, sometimes called Muharraq fort,
7q2
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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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