'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [113] (128/1050)
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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113
j Name.
Position.
Bank.
Remarks.
Hadbah ..
3 miles below Lukbah ,.
R.
A village.
Sufaiiah ••
Ghaidah . •
4 miles below Hadbah .,
2 hours above Rahbah .,
R*
t •
A village on the tableland
with excellent water.
There are palm and other
trees. Altitude about
3,150 ft.
A village with water.
Hasan-al-Qa 'a •,
3 miles above Rabhah ..
R.
A village.
Rahbah .•
7 miles below Sufaiiah
L.
A picturesque village with
a tank of dirty water, a
mosque, and the tomb of a
shaikh. Elevation, 2,254
feet.
Naidah ••
2 hours below Rahbah ,.
• %
A small but picturesque vil
lage situated in a sharp
bend in the valley.
Sahut ..
10 miles below Rahbah
R.
A village.
Nihar .,
4 miles below Sahut
R.
A village. Elevation, 2,100
feet.
KunaorKutna
1 hour above Bir bin
Abudain.
• •
A small towered hamlet.
The 'Obathani tribe occupy
this part of the valley.
Abudain (BIr bin) ..
10 miles below Nihar ..
L.
A village with 2 wells of
good water situated
amongst palm and camel-
thorn trees. Elevation,
1,848 feet.
Birk 1 ••
12 miles above Sa'ah .,
L.
A small village.
Ghuz (Bir-al)
Sa'ah ,,
Ghail 'Umr
6 miles above Sa'ah
8 miles above Ghail
'Umr.
21 miles south-east of
Shibam.
R.
L.
R.
A well near the point where
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sanghur joins
in on the right bank of
the main wddu
A village,
A village; also a running
stream of considerable
size issuing from a minor
valley called
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Loban,
There is a tomb of a Saiyid
'Umr here, which is a well-
known place of visitation.
(The
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Adlm from
here to the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Had-
hramaut is unexplored.)
C52(w)GSB
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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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