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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎672] (727/1050)

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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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672
HAD—HAD
to be certain ancient mine ; whilst to the eastward lies the settlement of Turabah.
Doughty calls this mountain, Jabal Hatthon.— (Doughty).
See also Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sabi', under Turabah.
HADHAR—
Or Hadhr ; an expression used, particularly in 'Oman to denote the fixed, or settled
population as opposed to the nomadic. The distinction has no racial or political basis.
HADHARIM—
A generic term for the inhabitants of the Hadhramaut.
HADHBAT-AL-QIDAS—
A place reported to be situated a few miles to the westward of Jabal Mashriq, {q. v.).
HADHI—
See Dhafrah.
HlDHIB—
See Batinah. It will be observed that there are two villages named Hadhib, both in
the Batinah district. Hadhib (1) is a short distance inland about 5 miles west of Barkah
Hadhib (2) is on the sea 5 miles east of Khaburah.
HADHINAH—
An unexplored district in Aulaki, Hadhramaut lying to the north of Yashbum and
east of Nisab.— {Hunter's Map of Arabia, 1908.)
HADHIRAH—
The quarter of Sohar town {q. v.) on its north-west side.
HADHRAM ( or H adharmi ) (B ani ) T ribe)—
See 'Oman (Sultanate); Ghafiri tribes.
HADHRAMAUT—
Hadhramaut, in the strict sense of the term, is the name of a great valley in southern
Arabia. Modern geographres, however, have applied the name loosely to the whole of the
south coast of Arabia lying between this great valley and the sea ; and extending from
the Aden Protectorate on the west to the 'Oman Sultanate on the east. In this wider
and cdmmonly accepted signification in which it is hereinafter employed, it includes also
the Mahra and Qara coasts as far eastwards as Murbat. Thus defined its limits are
between 14° and 18° N. and 46° and 531° east. Its maximum depth is therefore under
170 miles ; and its length rather more than 540 miles.
The coastal plain is narrow, rarely exceeding ten miles in width, and in places the
hills extend to the seashore. The principal ports are Makalla, Shihair, Qusai'ir, Raidah
and Saihut. The first two and the last are considerable towns, the others being fishing
villages. Inland there are a few villages near the foot of the hills, with a limited area of
cultivation irrigated by springs or wells in the hill torrent beds. Behind the littoral plain
a range of mountains, or rather a high plateau falling steeply to the south and more gently
to the north, extends continuously from the Yemen highlands on the west to the mouth of
the Hadhramaut valley from which a similar range extends with hardly a break to the
borders of 'Oman. Its crest line is generally some 30 miles from the coast and its
average height between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. A number of wadis or ravines cutting
deeply into the plateau run northward to the main Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hadhramaut, a broad valley
lying nearly east and west, and following, from its extreme western heads on the Yemen
highlands to its mouth in Qamar Bay, a bowshaped course of over 500 miles. Beyond
this valley and steadily encroaching on it, lies the great desert extending to Najd. The
most westerly village in the main valley is Shabwah, in ancient days the capital, but
now almost buried by the advancing desert. Lower down the first large villages are
Henan and Ajlaniyah, near which at a point three miles below the town of
Haurah numerous watercourses converge forming as it were a great basin. The chief

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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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