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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎726] (781/1050)

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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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726
HAM—HAM
H AMD AH (1l Bt) (T ribe)—
See Hillah (Qadah).
HAMDAH (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Sultan (Al Bu.)
HAMDAN—
A town in 'Iraq on the side of the Shatt-al-'Arab, about 2-7 of the way from
Basrah to Muhammareh Town; it is situated 2J miles up a creek of the same name,
of which the entrance is GJ miles by river below the old British Consulate at Basrah
and opposite to YSmin on 'Ajairawlyah island.
The town stands on both sides of the creek, the portion on the north-western bank
being, however, J a mile distant from it. The population of Hamdan is about 11,000
souls, of whom the majority are Muhaisin of the Bait Kana'an section. There are 30
to 40 houses well built of bricks and mud, but the rest of the dwellings are huts. Grazing
is good and cattle numerous. Date palms are estimated at 150,000 trees, and livestock
at 2,500 cattle, 1,000 sheep and goats, 40 horses and 200 donkeys.
Within the Hamdan creek, and so not visible from the Shatt-al-Arab, are a tomb
visited by Shi'ahs and a shrine respected by Sunnis ; the former appears to be a cenotaph,
as it is admitted that the Imam Hamzah whom it commemorates neither lived nor died
at Hamdan.— (Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .)
HAMDAN (T ribe)—
See Dawasir (Tribe); Farjan sub-division of the Al Hasan.
HAMDAN (A l)—
One of the sections of the Fuqarah tribe [q.v.).
HAMDAN (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Sa'ad (Bait.)
HAMDAN (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Turuf (Bani).
HAMDAN-AJ-SAGHIR—
See 'Arab (Shatt-al); right bank from Basrah to Muhammareh.
HAMDH (W adi)—
One of the largest and best known watercourses in western Arabia. It rises in the water
shed which extends south-east from the Harrat Khaibar towards the Hazam-ar-Raji
plain, and appears to have its actual source some miles to the south-west of Abu Mughair
on the Hail-Mecca section of the Persian Hajj route. The course of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hamdh,
which is very winding, is about 400 miles in length and has a general direction of west by
north.
The Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hamdh passes close to the city of Al-Madmah, and between it and Jabal
Ohod ; and nearly 100 miles lower down it is crossed by the Hejaz railway near Hadiyah.
It reaches the coast at a point about 32 miles south of Al-Wajj, but its mouth is not
well-defined and is scarcely discernible from the sea. Except after heavy rain it is dry
almost throughout its entire length. The principal tributaries of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hamdh are
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. 'Aqlq, near Al-Madlnah, and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Jizl which joins it about 30 miles to the west
of Hadiyah; and in addition it receives the drainage from the western portions of the
Harrat Khaibar.
HAMDI (A l Bti) (T ribe)—
See Ka'ab; Khanafireh division.
HAMI—
A small coastal vUlage in southern Arabia, lying about 16 miles east of Shihair It is
C^rarl 8 ^ W ^ l h l f r 0f some l0 - S? and L
by a stream 80 hot that thc l»nds can scarcely be kept in it. Indeed in the

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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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