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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎535] (566/1050)

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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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BHOB—
The name of a valley, or plain, about 12 miles to the east of Mecca. It lies between
Muzdalifah and Al-'Alamain, the northern of the two tracks between those two places
passing through it.—(J. L. Burckhardt.)
BHUBA'AN—
One of the quarters of the town of Hail (q.v.).
DHUBAI 'AH (H as)—
See article on Dhafrah, under the heading of Jabal Dhannah.
DHUBAIB —
See Shamin (Jau),
DHUBBAN—
See Shamin (Jau).
DHUFAR* (or) District—
Th e term Dhufar is properly used to describe the maritime plain on south coast
f Arabia which extends enclosed between the Samhan hills and the sea, from Has
Risut eastwards for 30 miles to Khor Rori. It is also used in a restricted sense to
designate the villages of Hafah and Salalah, which together contain two-thirds of the
entire settled population of the same pW In a wider sense, however, as the name of
a district, Dhufar denotes^ the whole coastal tract, from and including the village of
Kharifot on the west to Ras Nus on the east, which is in the possession of the Sultan
of Oman and forms a separate district of the 'Oman Sultanate. It is in the last of these
three meanings that the word is employed in the present article ; Dhufar Proper is
dealt with separately under that title. The eastern and western limits of the Dhuflr
district as just defined approximately coincide with those of the Qara tribe
Extent, The district of Dhufar, as defined above, has a length west by south and
Ic^Liles S a maxlmura brcadth i^nd, in Dhufar Proper, of about
Physical geography-The greater part of the district does not merit a detailed des-
cnption^t consists of barren hills at no great distance from the sea, interrupted here
and there byshort insignificant valleys. The only valley of importance is Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. RnilS?
which reaches the coast at Hasik and is said to have its head Fn the far interior The
bilk though in places irregular in direction and discontinuous, really form one ranee
which is generally known by the name of Jabal Samhan. In two places onlydoi Z
range recede perceptibly from the coast; one of these is between R5s Nils and MurbSt
where a belt of low land 6 to 12 miles broad, rocky and desolate in the extreme but
containing some hares and gazelles besides a few date trees in a ravine towaX Rff,
Nus, is left between the hills and the sea ; the other is the plain of Dhufar Proper of
which the extreme points upon the coast have been already mentioned
Chmate. -—Situated as Dhufar is on the shore of the Arabian Sea, its seasons are
regulated chiefly by the monsoons. The south-west monsoon, whkh brings Jn
ordinarily amves about the Uth of June and is sometimes preceded by 10 davs bv
a severe gale from the south or south-east. In December aod January the the air of
Dhufar is pleasant and salubrious. y oi
Inhabitants. —The two great tribes of the district aro fhn Harac *
and theh-fl 6 f^Th^n' Al , Kathir ' who inhabit the plain of DtaflrVZer
and the hills also. The Qaras have a language of their own and the ll Katto are
believed to speak an Arabic dialect which differs considerablv from
Gulf. The villagers are indolent agriculturists and hke most toZAraL !,^ ^
and much addicted to tobacco. Other tribes known in Dhufar are the T a
Bait-al-Qalam of the former of whom there are 20, and of the latter a W h ^
atMurbat; Saiyids or Sadat and Mashaikh, boih ^ moX ^T /^
Murbat and Taqa ; the Hasanfc or Hasrit, a'Bedouin Tribe t ^v ^f fcha^t
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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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