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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎307] (322/1050)

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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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AZI-AZI
307
'AZlZ ('A yal)—
A section of the Na'im tribe (g.v.)*
'AZIZ (B ir)—
A group of wells in Jafurah {q.v.) in eastern Arabia.
'AZiZ-AL-MA—
Some wells in Hushum (g.v.).
•AZlZlYAH ( Qadha)—
A division of the Sanjaq of Baghdad, which is a part of the Wilayat of the same name
in 'Iraq; it was constituted in 1884, at the time of separation of the Basrah
Wilayat from that of Baghdad, out of territory formerly included in the Qadha of
Kut-al-Amarah.
Position and boundaries. —The ' Azizlyah Qadha is situated on the left bank of the Tigris
some distance below Baghdad City, and is enclosed by the Qadhas of Baghdad and
Khurasan on the north-west, by that of Badrah on the north-east, by that of Kut-al-
Amarah on the south-east, and by that of Jazirah on the south-west. 'Aziziyah appa
rently reaches up the Tigris to the junction with the river of the Diyalah.
Topography and tribes. —The Qadha contains only two villages of any importance:
of these one is 'Aziziyah, described elsewhere under its own name ; the other is Salman
Pak which is mentioned in the article on the Tigris.
The following is an alphabetical table of the principal Muqata'ahs or tracts in 'Azizi
yah and of the tribes occupying them:—
Tract.
Tribe.
Tract.
Tribe.
1. Badi
Dilaim ..
10. QutnTyat-ash-
Sharqiyah.
Shammar Toqah of
the Hadail section.
2. Dabuni
(The private pro
perty of an Ar
menian family).
Shammar, T5qah of
the 'Atbah, Kha-
walid and Qara-
gh5l sections.
1L Safi ..
Shammar of Toqah of
the Manahlr section
3. Dair ..
Shammar Toqah of
the Banwah sec
tion.
12. Samrah
(On the large bend
of the Tigris at
Ctesiphon.)
Zubaid of the Bani
'Ajil and Battah
sections.
4. Dawar-al-Gharbi
Shammar Toqah of
the Qufaifan sec
tion.
13. Shadhif ,,
Shammar Toqah of
the Dawud and
Majli section.
6. Dfiwar-ash-
Sharqi,
\
Shammar T5qah of
the Mardan and
Zakaitat sections.
14. Shadi
Shammar Toqah of
the Sud'an section
and Da'ajah.»
2&2

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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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