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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎533] (564/1050)

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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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DHRtJMAH
533
BHRUMAH—
A large village in the 'Aridh district of Najd, memorable chiefly for the resistance
which it offered to the Egyptian forces in 1818 and for the severity with which it was
treated after being taken by them.
Dhrumah appears to be situated about 35 miles to the south-east of Barrah and about
the same distance to the west-south-west of Riyadh. It stands in a plain of some extent
which receives the drainage of three valleys from the western slopes of Jabal Tuwaiq 5
of these the northernmost begins in Jabal Kharshah a portion of the Tuwaiq range ad-
Joining Haislyah; the middle one is B5dhah and the southernmost is Saqtah. To
the south-east and north-east of Dhrumah are the Tuwaiq hills, to the south
west is a sandy desert, and to the north-west is a plain across which lies the route to
Shaqrah in Washam. The hollow in the Dhrumah plain down which passes the combined
drainage of the valleys from Jabal Tuwaiq leaves the village of Dhrumah on its right
bank, but the date groves of the village are watered from wells in its bed ; from Dhurmah
it trends east-south-eastwards, traverses Jabal Tuwaiq, and enters Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah a short
Way below Hair but near enough to that place to irrigate a portion of its date gardens.
Between Dhrumah and Hair, at several miles from Dhrumah, a village called Mizahmlyah
is passed upon the right bank, and several miles further on another village, named
Rod hah, also on the right bank ;* the lands of both these places are partly watered
from the hollow, which as it approaches Hair receives the name of Sail Hair.
Before reaching Hair it is joined—apparently from the left — by another hollow, called
Maghnfiyah, from Jabal Tuwaiq. The route from Dhrumah to Riyadh lies by Mizah-
miyah and thence over the high portion of Jabal Tuwaiq known as Abaljid ; the whole
journey occupies about 12 hours, and the latter three-fourths of the way are hilly and
difficult* The way direct from Dhrumah to Hair lies over a more southern and less
televated part of Jabal Tuwaiq called Maghrifiyah, and the journey is apparently
a longer one than that to Riyadh. These are the routes used by travellers moving lightly
or in fear of robbers; but a strong caravan with laden camels would, it is said, go by Hair
following the natural valley which leads from Dhrumah to that place.
The following table gives the usual particulars of the villages of Dhrumah, Mizahmivah
and Rodhah :— J
Name.
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks.
Dhrumah
See above
300 houses, viz.,
about 150 of Bani
Khadhir and on
the average about
25 each of ? Ani-
zah of the Ifqahah
section, Dawasir of
the Midbal section,
Fadhul, Mutair
of the Nafisah
(Braih) section, Sa-
bai J of the A1 'Abdul
2 Azrz section, Sahul
and Bani Tamim.
The main town is
called |Bilad, and
there are outlying
quarters or depend
ent villages known
as Qasr-bin-Shahail
and Wusaitah.
There is a bazar con
taining a number of
shops. There is ex
tensive cultivation of
wheat and barley 5
different estimates of
the date palms aver
age 30,000. Millet,
lucerne, melons and
the ordinary fruits
are also grown. The
wells are 11 to IS
fathoms in depth,
livestock are numer
ous. The Amir or
headman of the
village is at present
Muham mad-bin-
5 Abdul 3 Aziz of the
Nawasir section of
the Bani Tamim.
m^\Zmmbmb°olD^ uS eS tb0POS!ti0ns 01 these vyIages ' ^ "nother reduces the distances aid

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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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