'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [623] (666/1050)
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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FAS—FAT
623
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FASIQAH—
See Sohar (Vilayat). The village is also spelt Farksah {q.v.).
FATAISAH (J abal)—
See (Abu) Dhabi (Principality); Khor-al-Batm.
FATH AL BU SA'ID—
See Boshar (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
),
FATH-AL-HABUS—
See Sharqiyah; Baldan-al-Habus division.
FATIMAH (W adi)—
A valley in Western Arabia which finds its way to the Red Sea about 24 sea
miles south of Jiddah. It rises on the northern slopes of the Taif highlands, and,
under the name of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sail, flows in a north-westerly direction to Sail, a well-known
camping ground on the Darh-as-Sultdni, or Persian Hajj route. Here is a pleasant plot
of the desert soil, with wild rushes, peppermint, and green grass, where the cameleers
digging with their hands find at a span's depth a delicious draft of pure rain water.
At Sail the valley turns south-west, and still under the name of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sail, descends to
, Ain-az-Zaima, where it assumes a westerly direction. In this neighbourhood the valley
is stony and has a breadth of about half a mile, with a few acacia trees growing here and
there. From 'Ain-az-Zaima downwards the valley is called
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah.
Some 10 or 12 miles below 'Ain-az-Zaima,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah is joined on its right bank by
its largest and most important tributary, the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Laimun. The latter valley, often
in its lower reaches and generally at its mouth, is known as Al-Mudhik. Below this
confluence the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah is a wide torrent strand without inhabitants. Here and
there it has high banks, walled below with untrimmed blocks of basalt, and ovegrown
with a wild tree, thanthub, all green stalks, having prickles for leaves, and bitter tasting.
Bams have been built to divert the flood water to the right side of the valley, on to
fields enclosed with high earthem banks, where it stands for seven or eight days. Com
is then sown, and it ripens without further watering. At Az-Zibarah, where there is
a large dam, there are signs of former cultivation. Lower down, the valley side to the
northward is bordered with a precipice 1,000 feet high which forms the edge of Harra
Ajaifah. The valley hereabouts is desolate and unfrequented. The caravan route
between Jiddah and Mecca crosses
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah at Haddah. At that point the valley
bends southward, soon, however, to resume a general south-westerly direction which it
maintains until the Red Sea is reached in the neighbourhood of Ras Shi'rah.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Laimun appears to have its origin in the broken country northwards of Sail.
From its source it trends westwards, gradually assuming a more and more southerly course
until it joins
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah under the name of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Al-Mudhik, as we have already
seen. Through that embouchure comes the Darh-as-Sultdni, or Hajj route from Qasim,
and also the Darh-ash-Sharqi, or Haj route from Al-Madlnah. In the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Laimun are
the villages of the Hurrath, Ashraf; the Sherif of Mecca has possessions amongst them
also. The Arabs in the mountains are Hadhail.
The principal settlements and features in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fatimah, in descending order, are as
follows:—
Name.
Bank.
Position.
Remarks.
Ri'az-Zalalah
Not far from the head
A defile in which there is a rock
of the valley.
bearing an antique effigy beaten
thereon with a Himyaritic in
scription.
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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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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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