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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [226] (241/1050)
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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226
ARM—ARS
Shamaliyah. The well called Bir-al-Amghah is situated in this same depression some
8 miles to the northward. This neighbourhood is much frequented by the Shammar
and other tribes during the hot weather. Ibn Rashid camped here for some time in
1916.
ARMAL—•
A section of the Sinjarah division of the southern Shammar tribe {q.v.). *
ARMAN—
A town in the south-east of the Jabal Druz district of Hauran in Syria, and situated
4 or 5 miles east-north-east from Salkhad. It is a fairly populous settlement, and com
prises a large number of houses scattered amongst the groves. The water supply is
good and plentiful, and there is considerable cultivation. A hill called Khadhr Matan
lies some 3 or 4 miles to the east-south-east of Arman. From the top of this hill which
takes its name from the small village of Matan at its base, a view of Arman, Salkhad,
and Qasr-al-Azraq may be obtained.
ARMAR (T ribe)—
See Shammar (southern).
ARNAB ('A in-al)—-
A spring in the Shamlyah district of north-eastern Arabia, situated some 30 or 40
miles to the west-south-west of Hit.— [Butler and Aylmer : January 190S).
'ARNlYAH ( K hashm)—
A spur, or outlier, of Jabal Tuwaiq (q.v.) in central Arabia, at tha fo^t of which lies
the village of Ghat.
'ARQ—
Some wells in Sadah {q.v.) in tho Kuwait Principality.
'ARQ (R as-alot F asht-al)—
A coral reef on the east coast of Qatar iq.v.).
'ARQAH—
A small coastal village in Hadhramaut, about 62 miles by road west-south-west of
Balhaf. 'Arqah stands on a low sandy point and possesses a mosque. No supplies or
good water are obtainable at this village. It is also known by the name of 'Iraah —
{Bed Sea and Gutf of Aden Pilot, 1909), * q
> ARQI—
A hamlet in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mijlas {q.v.) in the Masqat district.
'ARQtB—
One of the numerous old canals of Mesopotamia ; it took out of the Euphrates about
10 miles below Hillah.
ARQUB MAL QURNAH.—
A hamlet in 'Iraq on the Tajiyah canal between the Bahr-an-Najaf and the Bahr-ash
Shinatiyah.
'ARQUB TUTIYANI (T el)—
Some low mounds on the right bank of the Euphrates about 8 mUes north-west by
north of the town of Hillah. J
'ARQUBAH—
A camping-ground with water in the division of Biyadh {q.v.) immediately south of
Sabakhat-as-Summ. J
'ARRIS—
A locality on the left bank of the Tigris {q.v.) a few miles above 'Amarah town.
ARSAL—
A small village in Mesopotamia situated on the left bank of the Euphrates two or
three miles below this town of Nasinyah.
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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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- 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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