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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [739] (794/1050)
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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to never rise
Ih the
Wadi
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Position.
About a mile below
'Ayainah.
On the left bank of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah
about 3 miles below
Taraf.
On the left bank of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah 9
miles below Jabai
lah.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Resembles 'Ayainah,
but the occasional
cultivators in this
case are all from
Malham.
The permanent in
habitants are only
4 houses of inferior
tribes; in winter,
however, there is an
influx of about 50
households of culti
vators, chiefly from
Malhem but a few
from Salbukh.
About 30 houses, viz.
15 of Fadhul, 4 of
Qahtan, and 10 of
inferior tribes.
Remarks.
the country. De
tached heaps of
ruins spread over
a mile and a half, and
extensive retaining
walls built to con
fine the flood of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah seem
to prove that it once
was, in fact, a con
siderable place, if
not indeed the first
city of Najd.
Like 'Ayainah in re
spect of agriculture
and water supply.
There was formerly a
large village here.
Crops are wheat,
barley, lucerne,
marsh melons and
water melons, but
dates are very few.
The village lands are
on both sides of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
. Numerous
wells 12 fathoms
deep yield fresh
water, but the level
of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bed is
too low to admit of
irrigation from
them
The name is due to
the separation of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah at
this point into two
branches which, re
unite, further down.
Wheat, barley,
millet, lucerne and
melons are cultivat
ed ; there are date
palms in abundance
but no other fruit
trees. The date
plantations are the
6o2
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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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- 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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