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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [206] (221/1050)
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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206
ARAB
Name.
Kharnu Myali—
conid.
Nature
and
position.
and his tribes men
have large holdings.
The greatest
breadth of Kharnu-
biyah island is now
about 650 yards.
Or Brain ; an island,
nearly 2 miles in
length, lying bet
ween Kharunbiyah
and 'Aqawat. Its
greatest breadth is
about ^ of a mile.
The Shaikh of
Muhammarah is
part owner. Near
its lower end is a
tract known as
Sab'ah Gusbat.
Remarks.
There are about 50,000
date palms, and live
stock are estimated at
1,000 cattle, 1,500 sheep
and goats and 120 horses.
'Aqawat
An island, rather
more than 2 miles
long and about J of
a mile wide, lying
between Buwarln
Island and the lower
end of Nahr Khai-
yin. Half a mile
from its lower end
is a large house
known as Bait Haji
Qasim; there is
another large house
some 7 furlongs
from its upper end.
The island, which is
Waqf property,
contains one or two
small settlements.
The remainder of the villages upon the left bank of the Shatt-al-'Arab in this section
are described in the article on Muhammareh District; the population of those in Arab
territory, given above, is apparently about 12,000 souls, while the date palms,
belonging to them amount to nearly 215,000.
Topography of the right bank from Muhamma Ko,—Here we may resume our
account of the villages and tracts upon the right bank of the rivers, taking them in the
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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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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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