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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [295] (310/1050)
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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AUF-AUH
295
AUF (B an I )—
One of the Ghafiri tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate {q. v.).
•AUF (W adi B ani)—
A valley in the 'Oman Sultanate, connected with
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fara', which it is said to leave
in the neighbourhood of Rustaq, and -subsequently reaching the sea at Shai'bah near
Mama'ah by an independent course to the east of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fara'. The villages in this valley
are, apparently in descending order, the following:—-
Name.
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks.
Qasmitain
1 hour from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fara'.
10 houses of Bani
'Auf.
Wheat and lucerne are
cultivated. There are 15
camels, 30 cattle, 150
sheep and goats.
Taikha
1 hour from Qasmi
tain.
40 houses of Bani
'Auf.
Crops are wheat and lu
cerne, and there are 60
camels, 10 cattle and 50
sheep and goats.
ZSmmah
3 hours from Taikha
100 houses of 'Abri-
yin.
The only crop is wheat.
There are 100 camels 70
cattle and 200 sheep and
goats.
Hat ..
1 hour from Zam-
mah.
50 houses of 'Abri-
yin.
No cultivation; the
people are shepherds and
carriers owning 10 camels
50 donkeys, 80 cattle and
1,000 sheep and goats.
'AUFI—
Part of the watery region between the Shatt-al-Hindiyah {q. v.) and the road connect
ing Tawainj with Hillah town.
'AUFI (B ani)—•
A village in 'Iraq situated near the Dawaihiyah canal but to the north of the Karbala-
Tawairij road. The village contains about 100 inhabitants, principally of the Maulah
tribe, and possesses a date grove. See also Shatt-al-Hindiyah.
AUFIDHIY AH—
A village in Qaslm, in the district of 'Anaizah, situated about 12 miles south-east
from 'Anaizah, and on the direct route between Buraidah and Riyadh. The village is
built on the western edge of a salt-pan ; and to the east of the latter at a distance of
1 mile from the village is the Nafud. Population, about 300, nearly all of whom are
'Anaizah. Water is from jallbs {qalibs), and stands at a depth of about 5 feet below the
surface of the ground. There are a few scattered date gardens with scanty cultivation ;
livestock is very scarce.— {Leachman, December, 1912.)
'AUHAH—
A small sandy islet near the island of Failakah [q. v.) in Kuwait Bay.
'AUHI—
A village in the Sohar Wilayat (q. v.) of the 'Oman Sultanate.
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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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