'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [431] (450/1050)
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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BIR-BIS
431
a vessel may find good shelter from all winds. In the entrance is a 4-fathom patch,
and within are 5 fathoms with a mud bottom. There are remains of a strongly built
wall of unhewn stone, but no houses, and there are some good wells of water near the
shore amongst date palms.— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
The Sharif of Mecca claims that his southern boundary runs from Birk to the head
of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dhila.
BIRKAH (A l)—
A halting-place on the main inland route between Al-Madmah and Mecca, and situated
about 70 miles from the latter. It consists of a large and ruined cistern built of hewn
stone by Harun-ar-Rashid.— {Burton.)
Bins NIMRUD—
The site of extensive ruins in Mesopotamia, situated about 8 or 9 miles south-west
from the town of Hillah and some 4 miles to the west of the Hillah-Najaf road. The
site is said to contain the ruins of the temple and tower of Babel.
BIRUDDI—
See Dhaid.
BIRZAN—
One of the three sections of the Braih division of the Mutair tribe {q. v.). The Birzan
with a fighting strength of about 300, appear to be an almost homogeneous body.
BIRZAN—
A fendy of the Aslam division of the southern Shammar tribe {q. v.) of Central Arabia.
BISAISAH (T ribe)—
See 'Ataibah (Tribe).
BISAISAT (T ribe)—
See 'Anizah (Tribe).
BISAITIN—
See Biyadh.
BISHA (R as -A l-)—
The north-eastern point of entrance to Khor 'Abdullah {q. v.).—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot,
1909.)
BISHAH ( or Q ai/at B ishah)—
A town, or collection of settlements, lying approximately 240 miles south-east
by east from Mecca. It is situated in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Bishah which may conveniently be
regarded as forming a separate district bounded on the east by Tathlith, on the west
by Hejaz and 'Aslr, and on the north-east by
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sabai'. Bishah itself is an
important halting place on the routes leading from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dawasir to the Haramain
and to 'Asir and Yemen. The settlement is reported to be well watered and surrounded
with cultivation, but it has never been visited by a European and the only information
available regarding it is that obtained from Arab sources. It was, however, occupied
for a fortnight by an Egyptian force in 1834.
BISHAH (W adi)—
See Dawasir (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
).
BISHAIRIYAH (J aziarat -A l)—
See Qatar. *
BISHARlYAH (T ribe)—
See Harb (Tribe).
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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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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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