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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎1] (16/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
GAZETTEER
OF
ARABIA.
VOLUME L
A
A^AIWIJ—
A Nahiyah ^nd class) of the Jazirali '{q. v.) Qadha of the Baghdad Wilayat. Th©
headquarters of the Nahiyah are at the village of the same name.
A'lKI ^RXS-ai.)—
One , oi the headlands in the Gulf of Masirah, on th.e south-eastern coast of 'Oman.
It is a Huiff psint 180 feet above the sea,— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
AB ( al V-
One of the Bam Salim villages situated in the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ferr'a between Ai-Madlnah and
Yanbu'.— {Doughty),
AB-AD-DtB—■
Or Ahlab-ad-Dud ^ the northernmost village of Qasim {g/.v.), in central Arabia,
'ABABID—
One of the Hinawi tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate {q.v.),
ABAD ( Nahr-al)—•
A creek in Mesopotamia flowing into the Shatt-al-Gharaf near Karadi. It is 7 or 8
yards wide and 3| miles in length,
ABAD 'ALI—
A nomad village in 'Iraq, 14| miles up the Tigris from 'Amarah.
^ABADAH—
One of the island villages in the Hammar Lake {q.v. ), in Me opotamia. It is situated
about three miles to the east of the entrance to the Mazliq Channel and consists of
a mound crowned with a thick clump of trees,
7 ABAD AT.—(T ribe)—
See 'Anafijeh (Tribe).
ABADELLA (A l)—
One of the nomad portions of the Ashraf trihe.—{Doughty
"ABADILAH—
Singular 'Abdali: a tribe of TruciaPOman who have ^00 houses at Sharjah Town, 20
at Ghallah in Shamailiyah, and 15 at Khalaibiyah adjoining Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ham ; some of them
C^ 8 as se ^^ ers on Shaikh Shu'aib island. In all they may number about 1,200

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

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 (523 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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