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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎570] (601/1050)

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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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570
DUM—DUW
DUMUKH—
A section of the Dawasir (<?.<:.) tribe, said to belong to the Al Hasan division, found in
.Uashtistan and Bahrain.
DURAIBAH—
A mountain village in Yemen, south-western Arabia. It is situated at a distance of
63 miles to the west of Taiz, on the Mojdia-Yarim route at an altitude of 7,655 feet. It
possesses a small bazar, but the water is bad.—(Wsore-GWcr,
DURAIMIYAH (B ie-am)—
See Aden (Protectorate).
DURAN (J abal)—
a ™ mOUI ! tairlSi 0f great ele ^tion in the Sana'a district of Yemen, south-western
e weste ™ extremity is about 4 miles east-north-eastward from Dhamar,
ere the range terminates in a curious sugar-loaf iovm~-{Harris.)
DURBAS (A l B in)—
A family of the Al Bin 'Ali tribe {q.v.).
DURRAJI—
A village in 'Iraq between Kaariyahand Khidr. It is situated on the left bank and has
rr r n a S T^T SOUl ^ l . The P®^ 16 are a11 and there are about 203
ouse;, (of mud) and 50 shops. 1 here is one Coffee-house. Of the 900 inhabitants 300
are of negro blood. Ajil-ad-Dabbi, now dead, the Shaikh of Al Muhsin, lived there and is
BaLTwil- t y if S0 . n .^ aif - , Abcnlt 1 miles of Durraji is the boundary of the
of the T* 11 ? OUt 1,200 date P alms - 0n the left bank . the border
of the Basrah ft jlayat is a watercut named Rimthah, and on the right bank a long lo -.v
^d^ha^alon^tht'ba^ 18 ^' ^ Wh nei 8 hbourhood of I)llr raji there are strips of millet
banks ^ camel-th^rn grows up to one or two hundred yards from the
banks. Behind this the country is bare except for a little short grass on the left bank
There is sandy soil on the right bank, but on the left it is harder.
DURSUBA (Wim)—
See Aden (Protectorate).
BUSAQIYAH (I sla^o)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side.
dush A n —
A section of the settled Bani Khalid {q.v.) of Zilfi.
DUSHMAN—
See Fao.
BUT—
See Dhank ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
DUWADIMI—
See Najd (South-western district).
BUWlGHINAH (T ribe)—
See Zubaid.
DUWAHAH (T ribe)—
See Shammar (Southern!; Dighairat divisioa
BUWAIHAH—
See D5hah.

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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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