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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [130] (145/1050)
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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130
AIS-AJA
The descent into the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-Aisar from the plateau is about 1,500 feet by a difficult
but skilfully made footpath between limestone cliffs.
The following is a list of hamlets in descending order which occur in this wddi;—
Name.
Position.
Bank.
Remarks.
Al-Arfah ..
Near the head of the val
ley.
R.
Sharihah ..
8 miles below Al-Arfah ,.
R.
Muhe
4 miles below Sharihah ..
R.
Khailah ..
5 miles below Muhe
R.
A considerable village,
the head quarters of
the Khailiki tribe; some
poultry. A castle on
opposite side of the
wddi.
Subaikh ..
2 miles below Khailah ..
L.
A village with towers.
Haduf
Immediately below Su
baikh.
L.
Ditto.
Larsanah . • • •
Immediately below
Hadiif.
i
L.
Ditto.
' AISHAH (B ad'at)—
An agricultural tract in the Karbala Qadha [q.v.).
AIWAR—
A well in northern Arabia, about three days' journey west of Hit. It is
situated in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hauran, on the east of the desert tract of Qa'ra, and is a halting-place
on one of the southern routes sometimes followed between the Euphrates valley and
Syria.
'AIYINT—
A hamlet near Matrah in the Masqat district {q.v.),
'AIYOH—
A single well in the Madam plain in Trucial 'Oman {q. V.).\
AJ—
An alternative name for
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-'Ajsh {q.v.),
'AJA, or IJA ( J abal)—
A range of mountains in the Jabal Shammar principality and one of the chief physical
features of northern Na ; d ; it bounds the Batn plain in which Hail stands on the north
west, being interposed between Batn and the Nafud and divided from the latter by a
strip' of hard gravelly ground in places 2 hours wide. The length of Aja is about 75
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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