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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎290] (305/1050)

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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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ATA—ATH
ATAIFIYAH (HOR)—
See Hammar Lake.
ATAINAH—
A well of excellent water situated inside the town of Dam {q. v.) in southern Najd»
'ATAISHI (K han-al)—
Called by Persians, Khan Atishi; a dilapidated caravansarai in 'Iraq, standing on a
mound 100 yards from the right bank of the Husainiyah canal about 10 miles below
its head. It is a square enclosure with sides some 80 yards long and a circular bastion
at each of its four corners. Khan-al-'Ataishi is only a mile or so from the edge of the
dense date plantations of Karbala^town.
'ATAIWI (Bait Bin)—
A village on the eastern shore of 'Abbadan Island {q. v.).
'ATAIYIQ—
A group of wells, with some ancient remains, in the district of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah {q. v.),
'ATALAH (Thaniyat)—
A mountain pass in the Sadair district of Najd, in central Arabia, situated a little to
the south of the town of Tamair, on the Zilfi route between Riyadh and Qasim, and lead
ing on to the high plateau between Jabal Tuwaiq on the west, and Jabal 'Urmah on the
east. According to Plagrave this is the highest pass in the district, and is often called
merely Ath-Thamyah, or the pass, in consequence. The same authority states that the
mountain just to the east of the pass is called Jabal 'Atalah. The latter must be a peak
of the 'Urmah range.
'ATALAH (J abal)—
See 'Atalah (Thaniyat)—
ATALAHAT (But)—
An important halting-place on the Darh Zuhaidah, situated nearly 75 miles, as the
crow flies, south by west from Najaf. At Atalahat there are three cisterns, one of
which is round and the other two square, each of the two latter being double. They are
half-buried in the sand, and are dry. There are also two remarkable wells. They are 230
feet deep, and square-cut, each face measuring about sixteen feet, and are skilfully
hewn in the rock. Like the cisterns, they are dry. Near these wells are the ruins of many
small houses, and also those of a large khan. The walls of the latter are still standing,
and are some 14 or 15 feet high. Atalahat is also called Mafraq-ad-darh, because the track
from Hail forks here, one branch leading to Najaf, and the other to Qasr-as-Sa'id, near
the south-western edge of the Bahr-as-Shinafiyah.— {Ruber, 1881.)
'ATARIDH—
Some wells in the Hazaim {q. v.) district of the Kuwait principality,
'ATAWAH—
A section of the Bani Hakim, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q. v.),
ATAYAT (A l)—
A fendy of the 'Ataibah (q. v.), given by Doughty.
'ATBAH—
A section of the Shammar Toqah tribe {q. v.).
'ATHAIB (A l)—
A group of ancient wells in Hejaz, situated between Madain Salih and Al 'Ali The
wells are small and contain bad water at about 18 tezt.—{Doughty.)

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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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