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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1476] (549/688)
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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Name.
Ghaf (I)
Ghaf (II)
Ghammash
Hajnawi
Hamar
Position.
2 miles west of
Buraidah, near
Quwai'ah.
3 miles west-south
west of 'Ayun in the
same large depres
sion.
12 miles west-south
west of Buraidah.
In the south-western
part of QasTm.
Perhaps 20 to 30
miles south-west of
'Anaizah; the name
appears to cover a
considerable stretch
of country.
4 miles west of Bu
raidah.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
35 houses of' Anizah,
'Ataibah and Mu-
tair.
20 houses
About 10 houses of
'Ataibah forming a
village and 15 more
scattered in date
groves.
A village of 15 house
and some Qasrs of
'Ataibah.
A locality with com
cultivation on the
south bank of
Wad i - ar - R um ni ah.
50 houses, said to be
of Harb and Sham-
mar.
QASIM
Remarks.
village is an ancient
ruined fort called Qasr
Ma'id and adjoining it
is a table-rock with
many Himyaritic in
scriptions ; a few such
inscriptions and many
more in Arabic are
found on stones to the
west of the village.
'Ain Ibn-Fahaid is a
stage on the route from
Kuwait to Makkah:
cattle, sheep, dates and
grain are available in
small quantities.
Ordinary cultivation
and livestock. Water
at 7 fathoms in wells.
There is a great date
plantation, partially
smoothered in desert
sand.
There is a considerable
number of palms, also
cultivation of wheat
and lucerne.
There are no dates, but
other cultivation
exists. Under Burai
dah.
Dates, wheat and lucem
are grown. The vil
lage, which is a well-
to-do one, is under
'Anaizah. The sur
rounding gravel desert
also is called Hajnawi.
The usual cultivation.
Water is at 5 fathom
but half the wells aru
Brackish. Under Be-
raidah.
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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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