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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [225] (240/1050)
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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ARI—ARK
225
'ARlSH (A bxt)—
Awatering place in Yemen, on the route between Jiddah and LahTyah. It is the
principal settlement in the tract of the same name ; and is situated at a dis
tance of some 75 miles from Lahlyah to the northward. From native reports it has
been acertained that water is obtainable at Abu 'Arlsh, but no information is avail
able as to its quality or quantity.
'ARISH (A l)—
A town in eastern Egypt on the sea coast and one of the halting places in the coastal
route between Egypt and Palestine. It is about 19J miles south-west of Rafah, and is
situated near the mouth of a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
of the same name. The country between Rafah
and Al-'ArTsh is reported to be well watered and considerably cultivated, and to be
quite practicable for military movement. [Military report on Syria),
* ARISH (U mm)—
A camping-ground with water in the division of Riyadh [q.v.) immediately to the
south of Sabakhat-as-Summ.
* ARISH (U mmahat)—
Some wells in or near the Dabaisi tract [q.v.) in eastern Arabia.
'ARJAH—
A village in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanlfah (g.y.) in SDuthern Najd.
'ARJAH ( al)—
A section, and also a sub-section, of the 'Ajmln tribe {(l-v.).
'ARK ( al)—
A place in the Washam district of Najd, in central Arabia. It is reported to be near
the head of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Turabah, not far from Shaqrah ; and to be a camping grounci re
sorted to by the 'Arban, on account of the water which collects there after rain, forming
a lake— {Doughty).
ARKAB (U mm)—
A peak in Jabal Shammar in central Arabia; it forms the eastern eminence of the
double hill called Jabal Samra which encloses the town of Hail on the north and east .
Umm Arkab, which is the higher of the two, is of dark-coloured plutonic basalt, with
its summit 3,990 feet above the sea. See Hail.
ARKAH—
A village on the right bank of the Euphrates almost opposite the town of Nasirlyah.
ARKAMIH (BiR -al)—
A group of wells in north-eastern Arabia! situated in the mdist of a camping-ground
much resorted to by Bedouins in the heat of the summer, and lying about 90 miles,
south-west from Suk-esh-Sheyukh on the road to Hail.—(Leac&mcm, 1910),
'ARKAN (J abal)—
A hill in the Jabal Shammar district of Najd, apparently about 15 miles south of Hail.
ARK AT (Tribe)—
See $hammar (southern); one of the Jinidah families of the 'Abdah. ^
ARKHAIMlYAH (B ir-al)—
A well known camping ground in north-eastern Arabia ; it lies on the route from
Siiq-ash-Shuyukh to Hail, at a distance of about 100 miles the former. At Arkhaimiyah
there are several wells containing a good and plentiful supply of water. They a,re situat
ed in a hollow which drains southward and forms part of that known as Falaii-^sh-
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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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