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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎387] (406/1050)

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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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BARBUKH— ^
The name of a canal, and also of a locality, on the right bank of the Tigris some four
miles above Qurnah. This creek is generally known to Europeans as the " Birbeck
Creek." Near its mouth are one or two hamlets of Ma'adan and, on the left bank, a
cluster of low mounds known collectively as Gun Hill.
The following creeks connect the Barbukh creek with the Euphrates:—
L Norfolk creek; about 4 feet deep.
2, Nahr-ai- Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ; about 5 feet deep,
3, Rumaili; about 5 feet deep.
4, Huir ; about 8—10 feet deep.
5, Turabah ; about 8—10 feet deep.
6, Qasr Khaiyun ; about 10—12 feet deep.
The last-named creek, which is about 3 miles east of Chubais, connects with the Tigris
below Ezra's Tomb through Lake Zichni. This is the only connection between the
Tigris and the Euphrates, between Qurnah and Chubais, which is open all the year
round,
BARBURAH—•
See Bahrain (Island),
BARD-HALQ (Rls)—
See Kuwait (Principality).
BARBAH (Jabal)—
A hill, 1,350 feet high, situated about three miles to the south of the town of Masqatk
{q, v.) in 'Oman.
BARDAWlL (Q asr)—
A small ruined fort, well-known as a landmark in north-eastern Arabia. It is situated
about half-way from Shifathah to Rahaliyah, on the left side of the road. See Shifathah,
BARHARAH—
A halting-place on the Yemen Hajj route, and apparently situated between 60 and 65
miles south-south-east from the town of Taif.— [Hunter's Map of Arabia.)
BARHUT (Bin)—
A well and volcano in Hadhramawt. Hunter places it on his map some 15 miles
south-west of Qabr Hud. Von Wrede, however, says, from native information obtained
at Qabr Hud, that it is 4 hours' journey in a northerly direction from that place. He
also states that the volcano is an enormous fissure 500 paces long, and half as broad,
and that a constant rumbling of water can be heard. Bent says the Bedouins obtain
sulphur from it for making gun-powder.— [Hunter ; Von Wrede ,* the Bents,)
BlRID (Btj)—
See Dhafrah.
BARIDI—
A cape 35 miles north-west of Yanbo'. It is a moderately high promontory forming a
curve to the westward about 7 miles in breadth. The shore is bounded by steep coral
cliffs having no bottom at 30 fathoms. To the north and east of the cape is a remarkable
range of broken hills of moderate height, called Jabal Hajinah [q-v.). — [Red Sea and Gulf
of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
BARIN (Island)—
See Buwarin. ♦
BARIYAT (Ras)—
A hill in western Najd, situated rather more than 50 miles north-east from Khaibar
Huber shows Ras Bariat as two small peaks lying about 35 or 40 miles southward from
Jabal Halwan. They are possibly two outlying hillidn of the Harrat Khaibar.
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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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