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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎608] (651/1050)

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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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608
FARA
Village.
Position.
On
which
bank.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Jammah
Opposite Ha
zam.
Half an hour
east of the
right bank.
....
Buwairid
Do.
Quarter of
an hour
east of
Jammah.
50 houses of Bani
Harras and of
Baluchis, ser
vants of the
11 Bu Sa'id.
Mansur
Do.
Half an hour
east of
Jammah.
40 houses of
Bani Harras.
Tarif ., # ,
Three hours
below Hazam.
Left
• •
Tau-ash-Shawi ..
Opposite Tarif
Right
• •
Masna'ah
One hour be
low Tarif.
Do.
• •
Eemarks.
See article Jam-
mah.
30 sheep and goats
only. Date
palms, 8,000.
The people form a
garrison and are
cultivators on be
half of Saiyid
'Ali-bin-Ba d a r,
of the Al Bu
Sa'id whose
private estate the
village is. There
is cultivation of
dates, wheat and
lucerne; the
palms number
about 8,000. Ani
mals are 5 camels
and 300 sheep
and goats, also
1 hoise.
See article Bati-
nah.
Ditto.
See article Mas-
na'ah.
The settled population of the valley down to and including Mansur is thus approxi
mately 25,000 souls.
There is also a ruined village called Munaqi near Wushail, half of which belonged to the
Government of the 'Oman Sultanate and half to the inhabitants of Wushail; it has about
12 wells, one of which is very large and is still used for irrigation. Another village now
deserted was Ha jar, about 2 miles south of Jammah ; it was held by the Bani Harraa
and Siyabin.
The trade of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fara' is with Masn'ah. The name Rustaq is of uncertain appli
cation ; it is sometimes used to designate particularly the fortified village of Qal'at Kasra,
which is the capital of the valley, but more generally it refers to the whole aggregate of
villages from Hazam inclusive upwards. All Rustaq, in the latter sense, is in the pos
session of Saiyid Sa'id bin-Ibrahim-bin-Qais-bin-'Azzaa, who receives an allowance
of $200 a month from the Sultan of Masqat and has given him his sister in marriage.—•
{Qazetter of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .)

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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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