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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎767] (822/1050)

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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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HASA
767
Nam^e,

Shaharln
Shaqlq ..
Siyairah
Taimiyah
Taraf
Thanian (Abu)
Thaqbah
Thur (Abu)
Traibil ..
Tuwaithir
1 mile south-west
of Jabail.
| of a mile south
east of Matairafi.
1| miles north of
Jishshah.
3 miles north-west
of Jishshah, at
the south-eastern
corner of Jabal
Qarah.
A mile south-west
of Jishshah.
4 miles south-east
of Hofuf.
2 miles west of
Hofuf and per
haps slightly to
southward.
2 miles north by
west of Jishshah.
Closely adjoining
Jabail and to the
south-east of it.
4 miles north-west
of Jishshah, at
the foot of Jabal
Qarah on its east
side towards the
north end.
Nature
and
inhabitants.
A hamlet of 20 hous
es of Shi'ahs.
A village of 100
houses. Half the
people are Shi'ahs
and the other half
Sunnis.
A village of 150
houses, mostly of
Shi'ahs.
A village of 225
houses of Shi'ahs.
A village of 450
houses. The bulk
of the people are
Sunnis ; a small pro
portion are Shi'ahs.
A Bedouin camping
ground with wells.
Ditto
A village of 40 houses
of Shi'ahs.
A village of 50 houses
of Shi'ahs.
A village of 250
houses of Shi'ahs.
R emarks.
Jalaijilah. Irriga
tion water is brought
across the interven
ing waste from the
springs of Harah
and Jauhariyah.
This place has a good
water-supply, but
the population is
nevertheless small.
The
Dairat-as-
Sanlyah has lands
here on which rice is
grown. ShaqTq is in
the same group with
Jalaijilah, etc.
Irrigation is by chan
nels from the Kha-
dud and Haqal
springs.
Irrigation is depend
ent on the Barabar
spring.
Surrounded by desert.
Ditto.
The supply of water
for irrigation is
brought from the
Khadud spring.
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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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