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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [408] (427/1050)
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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408
BATINAH
Place.
Position.
Bat-hah Yal
Sa'ad
or
Bat-hah Suwaiq.
Khadhr
Haiyan (Sur)
On the sea, about 7
miles west of Su
waiq.
On the coast 4 miles
west of Khadhra.
Dhiyan ..
Hajairah
Hadhib (II)
On the sea, 9 miles
east-south-east- of
Khaburah.
On the sea to the
west of Dhiyan.
I On the sea, 5 miles
east of Khaburah.
Houses
and
Inhabitants.
On the coast about
2 miles west of
Suwaiq.
600 houses of Yal
Sa'ad, very much
scattered.
400 houses of Yal
Sa 'ad and Al Bu
Rashid. There are
2 quarters, that
inland being detach
ed from the other.
250 houses of Mara-
ziq, Bani Kham-
marah, Yal Sa'ad,
Baluchis, etc.
200 houses of Al Bii
Qarain, Al Bu
Sa 'id, |Bani Khurus,
Huyud and mixed
tribes.
40 permanently in
habited huts of date
branches, besides a
large fluctuating
Bedouin population
in tents. The Be
douins are Al Bu
Qarain and the place
belongs to them: the
fixed inhabitants
are fishermen of va
rious tribes including
Bani Khalid.
50 houses of Mana-
warah and Yal
Sa 'ad.
Remarks.
There are wells, and
the date-groves be
longing to the place
extend about 6 miles
along the sea-front
and reach about 3
miles inland. The
trees possibly num
ber 10,000.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Bani Ghafir reaches
the sea here.
The people fish and
grow large quanti
ties of dates; the
palms number about
5)000.
The date plantations
are very fine, con
taining about 4,000
palms, but the people
have no other agri
culture or live-stock.
They own about 40
large boats which
carry dates to
Karachi and Mak-
ran.
There are about 3,000
palms.
The place is really a
camping ground of
the nomad Al Bu
Qarain with wells
and dates;
they have many
camels and
here.
The people live by the
cultivation of dates
and cereals: they
have 1,000 palms.
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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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