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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [644] (693/1050)
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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644
gha—gtha
ghalilah—
See (Ras-al) Khaimah (District).
GHALLAH—
Also known as Kalba, but never called Ghallat Kalba, and not to be confounded with
Khor Kalba. Ghallah is a village of the Shamailiyah tract in Trucial 'Oman, situated on
the coast about half way between Khor Kalba and Fujairah, 4 miles from either; it consists
of about 300 houses, chiefly date branch huts, and a few mud godowns. The inhabitants
are Naqbiyin, Sharqiyin, Kunud (20 families), 'Abadilah (20 families), Baluchis and
Persians—-the last from the Bastak district and the vicinity of Lingeh; they live by
fishing and the cultivation of dates, wheat, jowari and tobacco, their date palms number
ing about 25,000. They own 10 sea-going boats which run to Masqat, Makran and the
Persian Coast ports, also 14 fishing boats. Exports are chiefly tobacco, grown on the
hills behind, to Bahrain, and dried fish to the Batinah ports and Masqat. Ghallah is still
under the domination of Sharjah ; it has not been affected by the recent rebellion which
has its headquarters at Fujairah. The small fort with an upper storey is held by
a representative of the Sharjah, governor of Shamailiyah. Ghallah is the port of Fujairah.
^{Gazetteer of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,)
GHALLAH—
See Boshar (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
).
GHAMArI^AH (J abal)—
A low hill in north-western Arabia which, according to Huber, lies about 25 miles north
west of Tayma. If Carruthers' delimitation of the western edge of the Nafud be
accepted, Jabal Ghamarlyah lies about half-way between those limits and the Hejaz
railway, and is probably a feature of the Jarish escarpment.
ghamas—
See Shamiyah (Qadha).
ghamdhah—
See Ruus-al-Jibal.
GHAMID—
A tribal district in northern ' Aslr, through which the Yemen Hajj route passes. It is
bounded on the north-west by the district of Bani Thakif, on the west by Zahran, and
on the south-east by Shumran ; towards the north-east it extends to the Sabai' plains.
GHAMIN (T ribe)—
See Dawasir (Tribe); 'Ammar sub-division of the Al Hasan.
GHAMMASH—■
See Qasim.
GHAMR—
See 'Oman (Proper).
GHAMR—
One of the minor valleys which descend from Jabal Aja {q. v.) on its east side.
GHAMRAH—
See Shammar (Jabal). r '
GHAMSAH—
One of the villages in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dima {q, v.), in the 'Oman Sultanate,
GHANABIS (T ribe)—
See 'Al (Bani Bu),
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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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