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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1205] (254/688)
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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MAT-MAT
The following are the suburbs outside the walls :
1205
Jabru ..
Khazzafin
al-).
(Harat-
'Ajam
Harat-al-Balush .
Tuyan .
Zabadlyah
Inland (that is west) of the
Harat-ash-Shamal quarter of
the town.
Number of houses and remarks.
60 houses of Persians and Baluch-
is. In this quarter Saiyid
'Azzan -bin-Qais was killed in
1871. There is a Shi'ah
Matam here.
Inland (that is west) of the 100 houses of mixed tribes.
Harat-as-Siyagh and Sarmalla
quarters of the town.
Inland (that is west) of Harat-
al-Khazzafin.
Adjoins the town quarters of
Takiyah and Nazimaujah on
their inland (that is their
south-western) side. Also
called Gharaifah, from a hill on
to the west of it.
Outside the Bab-al-Kablr, on
both sides of the road leading
to the Kharash f pass.
South of Tuyan, on the east side
of the road to the Khara-
sh f pass, extending towards a
hill called Luluwah.
250 houses of Baluchis and
Persians. A new and growing
quarter.
300 houses including 30 of
Bani Jabir; the remainder
are Baluchis, J ad gals, Bani
Hadhram and Bayasirah.
180 houses of the same tribes
as in Harat-al-Balush.
50 houses of the servants and
slaves of K.h5jahs and others.
The villages of Arbaq and Matairah described in the article on Masqat district, arc
closely connected with Matrah. Each has a blockhouse in which a guard of about 50
'Askaris is Stationed at night for the protection of the town.
MATRAHAIN ( Island)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side.
MATRlN—
A fendy of the Southern Shammar tribe {q. v.), of the 'Abdah division.
MATRUBAH— , . A -
A hollow in the Batin not quite two-thirds of the way from Basrah to Buraidah ; it is
situated near the point where a depression'joins the Batin from the south, some
150 miles from Buraidah, and holds up water after the winter rams.
MATTA— . „ At™ u
A halting place, in central Arabia, on the route between 'Anaizah and Al-Madinah.
It is said to be 12 miles west by south from Rass and to consist of wells with a walled
enclosure containing a few families of cultivators.—(Mter, iS19.) It has not been
found possible to identify this place,
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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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