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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎830] (885/1050)

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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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830
HINDIYAH
Tracts.
Tribes.
Tracts.
Tribes.
3. Janajiyah
Janajah.
9. Mshorab-ash-Shar
qi
'Amirlyah, Bani Sadd
and Bani Taraf.
4. Ka'aburi
Bani Hasan.
10. Nafash (Abu)
Bani Hasan.
5. Manfahan
Qarait.
11. Robah (Abu)
Qarait.
6. Masai'idat-al-
Gharbiyah.
Jalihah.
12. Zubaillyah
'Amirlyah.
The Bani Salah tribe are also found in this district.
Population, —The total fixed pupulatian of the district is extimated at 95,000 souls,
of whom about 89,000 are Shi'ah Muhammadans, 5,500 are Sunni Muhammadans and 500
are Je^s.
Resources. —Date palms are estimated at 400,000 trees. Rice was formerly the chief
crop of the Qadha ; but the upper part of the district in the neighbourhood of TawairTj
town, formerly marshy, is now drying up, and the place of rice in that part is being taken
by other cereals. There is nothing remarkable about the livestock.
HINDIYAH (S hatt- vl)—
A great waterway in 'Iraq, formerly a canal but now become a river: it
leaves the right bank of the Euphrates at a point about 5 miles below Musaiyib, and
draws off at the present time nearly the whole stream of that river.
The Hindiyah barrage. —The angle contained between the Euphrates and the Hindi-
yah immediately below the point of bifurcation is acute. At a short distance within
the entrance of the Hindiyah, the banks being here about 200 yards apart, it is spanned
by a large Saddah or barrage built of massive limestone blocks : in the centre of this
work there is now a gap about 20 yards in extent. As there is a concave flexure in its
lower or downstream aspect the length of the barrage must exceed 200 yards.
The water rushes in a rapid—almost in a waterfall—-through the gap and trickles over
the wings, and a deep whirlpool is thus formed on the lower side in which the dancing
Quffahs of fishermen may often be seen. A village called Saddah stands on both sides
of the Hindiyah at the barrage : on the right or western bank are some 50 houses with
shops and cafes ; on the left bank are about 25 houses, including the quarters of
a superintending engineer and his establishment.
Topography of the Hindiyah proper. —The principal features of the Hindiyah in the
next 68 miles of its course can be most conveniently explained by means of a table, as
follows;—
Name.
Position.
Nature.
R emarks.
Mshorab Canal ,,
Takes off from the
right bank about 7
miles below the
barrage.
A canal, sometimes
dry, of which the
bed is 15 or 20 yards
broad and 10 feet
deep.
I
Much water runs to
waste through this
canal and helps to
flood the country to
the south-east of
Karbala town. The
substitution of rice
for barley on 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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