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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎412] (431/1050)

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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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BAT—BAW
houses); Sakhbari (left bank, 10 houses); Khilaiyif (left bank, 20 houses). The popu
lation of the valley is thus about 3,000 souls. Resources are estimated at 200 camels, 280
donkeys, 360 cattle and 4,500 sheep and goats, which are distributed among the villages
roughly in proportion to the size of the latter. Date palms amount altogether to some
"21,000, of which about 7,000 are at Mazara' and 7,000 at Misfah.
BATUN—
A section of the Daru' tribe (q-v.) of the 'Oman Sultanate.
BATUN—
A section of the Dhafir tribe {q.v.) living in the direction of Kuwait.
BAIT AN—
A small settlement in Yemen, situated on the main road between Suq-al-Khamis and
Sana'a and at a distance of about 22 miles from the latter town. It consists of a collec
tion of small, empty, stone huts which are apparently used as shops on market days
(Thursday). There is also a coffee-house and a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). for travellers. Bau'an lies
in a vailley of the same name, and on the right bank of a running brook known as
Asfarah, which flows in an easterly direction from the hills round the Salami pass. This
brook is spanned at Bau'an by a bridge of well-pointed masonry. The road from here
to Sana'a might be traversed by a motor-car. The caracol at Bau'an is a Turkish-built,
defensible serai, having a good command of the road, the village, and the water-supply,
which latter is, however, difficult of access from this post. The caracol is held by
a small detachment of reguralar troops from Sana'a. The altitude of Bau'an is 8,900
feet.
BAUAP-AL-GARJI (T el) (or * T el B atjap-al -G eyi)—
A hill in 'Iraq. It appears to be situated some 7 or 8 miles from the Persian
frontier and to overlook the Tib river from the west. From z 'Ali-al-Gharbi it would
appear to lie about 20 or 22 miles to the east by south.
BAUKBAN (B ib)—
A well in Hadhramaut, Southern Arabia, situated at a distance of 9 miles by road
southward from Sufailah, on the Shihair-Shibam route. It lies at the mouth of a valley
and contains brackish water.— {Bent.)
BAUYADH—
See Tayin ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
BAWARID (I sland)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, eastern side.
BAWARID—
A division of the Bani Zaid tribe {q.v.) of Southern Najd.
BAW AIRDEH—
A village on the west shore of 'Abbadan Island {q.v.)*
BAWARIH (T ribe)—
See 'Oman (Sultanate).
BAWI—
The name of a locality on the left bank of the Tigris {q.v.) between Qararah and
Suwairah.
♦Spelling uncertain.

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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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