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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [132] (147/1050)
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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AJA-A3A
AJAIFA (H aheat)—
One of the southern harrahs of Hejaz, situated at a distance of about 20 miles north erf
Mecca.—( Doughty)*
'AJAIL (T eibe)—
See 'Anizah (Tribe),
'AJAIR—
See 'Oqair,
AJAIR (T el)—
A small mound in^Mesopotamia situated some 20 or 25 miles eastwards from
Musaiyib.
A J AIR AWl YAH—
Also known asr Quarantine Island, a lon^ narrow island in the Shatt-al- y Arab beginning
about two miles below the British Consulate at Basrah and ending at I0| miles below
the same place its length is thus 8J miles, while its breadth^ which is fairly uniform, is
on the average about J of a mile only. "Ajairawiyah, is divided from the left bank of the
Shatt-al-'Arab by a channel called Salhiyah which is navigable by launches, lighters
and boats at high tide,and by the main stream from the right bank of the river ; the is
land subtends all the villages on the left bank from Kut-al-Ju' to Kahr Jasim, and
those from Khorah to Abul Hamad on the right bank.
The following is a table of the places on 'Ajairawlyah in order from the upper to the
lower end of the island
Name.
Position.
Inhabitants
and
houses.
Remarks.
Salhiyah or
Lisan.
The tip of the island
nearest to Basrah.
Now occupied by
the Basrah Lazaret.
The Lazaret and quaran
tine station of Basrah,
from which the whole
island derives its alter
native name, are situat
ed here on-land belong
ing to Haji i Ibrahim-
az-Zahair. There are
about 4,000 date palms.
Shamaliyah .,
About one mile
below Lisan,
opposite to the
mouth of the
Saraji creek on
the right bank of
the Shatt-al-'Arab.
100 souls of 'Idan,
inhabiting huts.
A tract containing about
4,000 date trees. The
inhabitants own a few
livestock.
Sa'aiwan
About one mile
below Shamali-
yah, opposite to
the Mina creek
on the left bank
of the Shatt-al-
'Arab.
80 souls of 'Idan.
The dwellings are
huts, except one
large stone house
on the north shore
which belongs
to the principal
Shaikh of the
island.
Do.
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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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