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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [379] (398/1050)
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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BAN~BAQ
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bankbarah—
A Nahiyah of the Khanaqlu Qadha (</. v.),
BANWAH (Tribe)—
See Shammar T5qah.
BANYAN
Merchant of Indian extraction.
(Muhallat)—
One of the quarters of Masqat town {q. v.).
BAQA'A—♦
A village in the Jabal Shammar principality about 45 miles north-east of Hail oti the"
route to Najaf: it is also known by the name of Taiyibat-al-Tsm. Baqa'a is picturesque
ly situated in a large basin of whitish sandstone, which receives the drainage of a plain
between it and Jabal Jildiyah and also, it is believed, forms the conclusion of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Da'aijan on which stands Hail. The village consists of two main parts, Uwaimi at the
north and Shahbi at the south side of the basin, and the plain between them is covered
with a thick layer of very bitter salt. These quarters consist each of a stone-walled
enclosure containing a number of miserable hovels, the inhabitants being of the Sa'adah
section of the 'Ataibah tribe. A little to the east is a small intermediate hamlet called
Sharqi or Maraiqib ; it is inhabited by Shammar of the Ja'afar section and is believed to*
be very ancient. The total population of Baqa'a is about 400 souls. Close by is an
isolated path of cultivation, without palms, called Qasaifah and another called
Qawaian. The date-groves are 5 miles in circuit and their produce excellent; corn and*
barley also are sown every year. Water, bad and brackish, is at 40 feet below the surfaces-
Only one well, in XJwaimi, yields passable water; even that is bluish and milky in appear--
ance.
BAQAILAH—
See Biyadh.
BAQAIQ—
See Biyadh.
BAQAISHI (Qal'at-al)—
See Bahrain (Island).
baqaqalah—
Singular Baqqali. A community represented by about 12 households at Manamah
in Bahrain and by 10 at Dohah in Qatar. They perform menial service in the houses of
the Bahrain and Qatar chiefs, cultivate garderns, and are petty shopkeepers. Those
of Bahrain are Shi'ahs and are reckoned to the Baharinah; those of Qatar are Maliki
Sunnis.
BAQAQALAH (T RIBE)—
See Dohah.
BAQAR (Abul)—
See Jafurah.
BAQARAH—
See Miyah (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al).
BAQARAH (Btj)—
See Shinas (Lub-Vilayet).
•A sketch-map which includes the Baqa'a basin will be found at the end of Huber's Journal de Voyage, but
it does cot entirely agree with his earlier description of the place.
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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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