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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [554] (585/1050)
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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551
DIR—DIW
BIRA'—
/See Biyadh ; Part V.
DIR'A (A d)—-
A village in the Aden Protecrtorate.
DIRAIDIR—
The name of a left-bank tract along the Tigris a little above Zunbaraniyah but oa
the opposite bank.
DIRAIRAT (T ribe)—
/See Saleh (Bani).
BIRAIWlSHI—•
>See Tigris,
MRAZ—
A village m Bahrain Island (q. v.).
BIRBAT (
WAdi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
)—•
Rough draft sent to Mrs. Bent, 21st June 1914.
DIRH AMI Y AH—
A cultivated tract near the town of Zubair {q r v.),
BIRJAJ—
See Aden (Protectorate),
BIRRAH—
See 'Ajairawiyah.
BIS—
A small coastal settlement in Southern Arabia, consisting of a town and an oasis
fertilised by a running stream, situated about 31 miles to the east-north-east of Shihair.
It lies in the midst of a fairly populous district, and though not large in itself it has been
and still is a prosperous place. There is some cultivation of cereals and sugarcane in the
neighbourhood, where there are also a few old fortsv Amongst the inhabitants of
Bis are some light-skinned Arabs, with long black hair which they dress with greases
wearing round the neck a cocoanut-shell containing a supply of this toilet requisite^
Bis is noted for its hot springs, which are of peculiar efficacy in rheumatic complaints,—
{Bent, 1894 ; Bed Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1908.)
BISAN (J abal)—
See Farasan (Islands),
BISAN (J azirat)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side.
BISBAH—
See Adim (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
),
BIWAN ( S h'ab-ad)—•
Aden Protectorate.
BIWANAT—
A halting-place on the coastal route between Jiddah and Yanbo', in the Hejaz
Tihamah. It lies between 60 and 65 miles northward from Jiddah, and 10 or 12 mile^
north by west from Qadhimah. Its water supply is poor and limits
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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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