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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [285] (300/1050)
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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ASU-ATA 285
'ASTJMAH (T ribe)—
See 'Ataibah (Tribe); Barqah division,
'ASUMAH—
A division of the Qahtan tribe (q.v.),
ASWAD—
A village in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-Qor {q.v.) in 'Oman.
'ASWAD (B ad'at)—
An agricultural tract in the Karbala Qadha (q-v.).
ASWAD (J abal)—
See Abanat (Jabal)#
ASWAD (Jabal)—
A mountain range in Yemen lying immediately to the west of Sana'a and traversed
by the Hodaidah-Sana'a road. Jabal Aswad is along, low, dark coloured ridge, strewn
with basaltic boulders, and from the crest of it, estwards, a fine view of the Sana'a plain is
obtainable.
ASWAD (R as-al)—
A cape in Hejaz forming the southern boundary of the Bay of Jiddah. It is 10 miles
south of Has Qahaz. {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909),
ASWAIJAH (U mm).—
A Bedouin camping-ground with a well, in the interior of Qatar {q.v.),
ASWAL (T el)—
Some mounds in 'Iraq lying about 5 or 6 miles south-east by east from the town of
Tawairij (or Hindlyah).
'ATA—
One of the hamlets of 'Aqdah {q.v.) in Jabal Aja.
'ATA ULLAH—
A section of the Bani Hakim, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q-v.),
'atab—
A village in Hadhramaut, 2 miles north-eastward of Has 'Atab {q.v.) and about 1 mile
inland ; and 15 miles east-north-east of Saihut. It has a population of about 400 souls
and contains 3 mosques. There are date groves one mile to the westward, and good
water is obtainable from wells to the east of the village. 'Atab is under the government
of Qishm. Th coast in the vicinity is sandy and barren. {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
PiloV 1909).
'ATAB (H as)—
A moderately high headland terminating in a low point which forms the western bound
ary of Bandar Liban, on the Mahrah coast of Hadhramaut, in southern Arabia.— {Red
Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909).
'ATlBI—
Afalaj running through
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sahtan {q.v.) in 'Oman.
atabij—
A village of the Barmanah Nahiyah in the Hillah district {q.v.).
'atah—
A locality on the right bank of the Tigris {q.v.) between 'Ali-al-Gharbi and Kumait.
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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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