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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎210] (225/1050)

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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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2W
AHA—ARA
Nature
Inhabitants
Name.
and
and
Remarks.
position.
houses.
!
1

Jao
A tract occupying
the last 8 miles of
the right bank,
between Ma'amir
and the mouth of
the river.
See article Fao.
The population of the right bank villages of this reach would seem to be about 12,500
; ^oils and the number of their date palms is probably 150,000 at least.
'ARAB BU ABIN—
A small settlement in 'Iraq, situated to the northward of Baqubah and at distance
from it of about 16 miles.
'ARABAH (B ani ). (T ribe)—
One of the Hinawi tribe of the 'Oman Sultanate {q.v.).
ARABAH (B ani)—
The singular form of the word, which is 'Arabi, is avoided as it is ambiguous/meaning
also a hill-donkey. The Bani 'Arabah are a Ghafiri tribe of the 'Oman
'Sultanate, found chiefly in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tayln, where their principal places are Sibal, Qurr,
Hammam and Shat. Twenty years ago they are said to have been a large tribe ; but they
| are now much less numerous in consequence, chiefly, of the ravages of cholera, and pro
bably do not exceed 1,000 persons. They have been on bad terms with the Siyabiyln
for many 30 years, but the feud is now less acute than formerly.
ARABAH ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al)—
A large depression, considerably, over a hundred miles in length , leading from the
Gulf of 'Aqabah, of which it is a prolongation, to the Dead Sea. It has numerous bran
ches and some of its reaches have separate names ; but the valley is really continuous and
may be regarded as one feature, which is known in its entirety as the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al- 'Arabah.
'ARABI—
An island, only 3 feet above sea level, situated l n the midst of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , about
60 miles east-north-east of Musallamiyah bay and 15 miles south of Farsi island. It
consists of a sandbank with a rocky foundation and is visited by fishermen to catch turtle.
It swarms with cormorants, being covered in the season with their nests and young ones ;
and there is a deposit of guano, a few inches thick, all over it. The question of the owner
ship of 'Arabi has never arisen, and there is apparently no reason for regarding it as the
property of one territorial power rather than of another.
'ARABI—
The singular form of (Bani) 'Arabah ; the term is, however, not used at it also means
hill donkey.
'ARABID (N ahr A etjl)—
A small creek, in Persian territory, meeting Nahr Khaiyin about a mile down stream
from Nahr Da'aiji. Geographically, it is outside the scope of this Gazetteer, but poli
tically it deserves mention because the Pers-Arab boundary strikes Nahr Khaiyin 400
ieefc to the west of the junction of Nahr Abul 'Arabid with Nahr Khaiyin.

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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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