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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎10] (25/1050)

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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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ABB—ABD
either of the Shatt-al-'Arab or the Bahmanshir. The chief advantages of the island as a
camping ground are the commodious jetty, at the oil refinery, and the large amount of
available space. There are also post and telegraph offices here.
The temperature on the island is subject to great variation ; as much as 122° F. has
been registered during the summer months, while in the cold weather it has been known
to drop below freezing point.— {Murphy.)
'ABBADAN (Khor).—
A swamp at the south-eastern end of 'Abbadan Island [q, v.)
'ABBADAN (Maraqqat)—
See 'Abbadan.
'ABBAS—
A section of the Bani Hasan, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq (<?. v.);-see also Nejef
Qadha.
'ABBAS (B ir)—-
A village about 50 miles south-west of Al-Madinah, containing a well, the usual stone
forts and palm-leaved hovels, and a hut or two called the bazZr ; but not a tree or a bush
is to be seen. The camping ground is on loose sand. Bir 'Abbas is a watering place on
the usual route between Yanbo' and Al-Midinah.
'ABBlS (I mam)—
A shrine on the Shatt-al-Gharaf in 'Iraq.
'ABBAS (U mm)—
A halting-place in Sinai on the Suez-'Aqabah route; more frequently known as Bir
Abu Muhammad (q. v.).
'ABBAS -A l -HATAITAH (N ahr)—•
See Shatt-al-Gharaf.
'ABBAS IBN 'ALI (Z iarat)—
A shrine on the south-west side of the town of Mandali, in 'Iraq.
'ABBASAH—
A coastal village in Batinah (q. v.).
'ABBASlYAH ( Jabal Al)—
A low sandstone mountain situated rather more than 100 miles west-south-west
from Hail, and about 25 miles south-west from Jabal Misma.— {Doughty).
'ABBASIYAH (K hor-al)— '
A portion of a considerable area, which from March to July is flooded, stretching
along the left bank of the Shatt-al- Hindiyah, in Mesopotamia, to the east of Kufah.
This watery tract is known as the Bahr Abu Najm.
'ABBASIYAH (Qal'at)—
A qaVah in Mesopotamia situated near the southern end of the town of Kifl, and
standing on the left bank of a distributary of the Shatt-al-Hindiyah which goes to form
the Khor-al-'Abbasiyah.
'ABD ('A in-al)—
A salt spring in the Kuwait principality in which rises the Maqta' {q. v.) stream.
'ABD-AL-KAURI (I sland)—
Bee Soqotrah.

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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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