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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎215] (230/1050)

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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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ARF—ARI
215
, Ara , —
A conspicuous ridge 4,020 feet high in western central Arabia, lying astride the Persian
Hajj route. This ridge runs practically due north and south, and is about 15 miles in
length, the centre of it being about 120 miles north-east of Mecca.
ARFA—
The name of a small stream in southern Arabia which flows into the Gulf of Aden, a
mile or so to the east of the town of Shihair.—(J5e^, 1894.)
'ARFAJ (T bibe)—.
See Bawasir (Tribe); Farjan sub-division of the Al Hasan-
'ARFAJlYAH—
See Kuwait (Principality).
'ARFAIYAH—
See Sirhan ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
ARFFAN ( Tbibe)—
See Mutair (Tribe).
ARG (A l)—
A hamlet near the town of Najaf, in north-eastern Arabia. It is situated near the
south-western edge of the Bahr-an-Najaf, and about 16 miles north-north-west of the
village of Rahabah past which runs the Darb Zubaidah.
ARGUBAN ( Jabal)—
A large hill situated 12 or 15 miles to the north-eastward of Kaf, in north-west Arabia.
ARH ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. )—
See Zabid ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
ARHAB—
A tribal district in southern Yemen lying immediately to the north-east of Sana'a.
ARHIYAH—
A hill in the Kuwait Principality, in north-eastern Arabia, situated nearly 14 miles
^est of the Jadidiyah wells, and rather more than 20 miles west-south-west from
Kuwait.
ARIATAIN (J abal)—
A small mountain in north-western Arabia, situated about 10 miles northward from
Qasr-al-Azraq.— {Butler and Aylmer, January 1908.) f
tfote.—This name is possibly a Syrian corruption of Qariaiain, meaning " Two villages C. G. R. M,
'ARIDAN (J abal).—
A hill situated from 20 to 25 miles south-south-west from Sija in south-western Najd,
the junction of the Hajj routes from Qasim and Riyadh.— {Doughty.)
'ARIDH (B ani)—
A tract in the Samawah Qadha {q.v.) in 'Iraq, and also a small section of the
Khaza'ii tribe inhabiting that tract.

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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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