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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [181] (196/1050)
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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Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
' And am issues from the hills about midway between 'Ulya and WashSl, and it
junction with
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Halfain is said to take place 2 miles below Mutaili'.
The Bani Ruwahah of this valley belong to the Aulad 'Aqld, 'Awamir, Wilad Harmal,
Wilad Hasan, Wilad Husain, Bani Na'aman and Wilad Sulaiman-bin-'Umr sections
of the tribe. The total number of inhabitants is about 6,000 souls. Among them
are some of the Hadiyin tribe.
Livestock are estimated in all at about 200 camels, 350 donkeys, 350 cattle and 2,500
sheep and goats : these are divided approximately in proportion to the size of the
vil'a^ea.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
'Andam forms, from Khadra Bin-Daffa' downwards, the boundary between
the districts of 'Oman Proper on the west and Sharqiyah on the east.
The affluent called
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Qant which comes in at Majazah, has its head at Saddi
in 'Oman Proper and forms the boundary, from that place to Khadhra Bin-Daffa', bet
ween 'Oman Proper and Slmrqiyah. It apparently contains three or four of the villages
described in the articles on 'Oman Proper.
ANGULA (W adi)—
A small watercourse in north-western Arabia, which trends south-westwards across
the flat level plain stretching away south of Q vsr-al-Azraq.— {Butler and Aylmer: Jan-
uary 1908.)
ANHARI (K ut-al)—
A tract in the Kut-al-Amarah Qadha {q.v.)
'ANIK—
A walled hamlet near the town of Qatif; see Qatlf oasis. This name is usually pro
nounced 'Anich.
'INIKAH ( or 'A nkah)—
See Khatam.
ANIS—
A tribal district in Yemen lj/ing to the south of Sana'a and immediately to the west of
Khadar on the Sana'a-Ma'bar-Dhamar-Qatabah route.
AN J ALL (AL)—
According to native information, this is a pit of bubbling water in the Washam dis
tricts of Najd, in Central Arabia, and situated in the Nafad at a distance of between 30
and 35 miles southward from Shaqrah.— {Doughty).
'ANKAH—
Some wells in Khatam {q. v.)
'ANKUSHI—
A tract in the SalahTyah Nahiyah of the Shamlyah Qadha {q, v.) in 'IrSq.
'ANQAD—
/See Dhufar (Proper).
ANSAR (Q asr I bn)—-
A halting place on the route between Najaf and Basrah. It is situated near the
southern edge of the Euphrates valley, at a distance of about 30 miles south-east by
east from Samawah. There is a large pan of very brackish water here, fit for animals only.
The soil about Qasr Ibn Ansar is sandy encrusted with salt, and of the nature of quick
sand. {Leachman, 1910).
ANT A'A—
A considerable village in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-Miyah tract of the Hasa district it is situated
about 50 miles inland, westwards from the foot of Musallamiyah bay, and it lies ap
proximately 140 miles south by east of Kuwait Town and 160 miles north-north west
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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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