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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎924] (991/1050)

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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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924
JAD—JAF
60 yards square, with stabling for 100 horses. In the centre of each Ichdn is a circular
hole 15 yards in diameter and 4 feet deep in the centre. Most of the walls surrounding the
date plantations are topped with thorny brushwood which answers the purpose of broken
glass.
Before the war there were usually about 600 sheep available here, and perhaps 50 horses
of sorts. The population amounted to about 1,000 souls, practically all cultivators.
There are 2,000 palm trees.
The second Jadidah village, which is about the same size and type as the first, is 38
miles by road from Baghdad and 2| miles from the river.
JADIDAH—
Jadidah (2), wh'ch is about the same size and type as Jadidah (1), is about 34 miles
from Baghdad and lies nearly three miles from the left bank of the river.
JADIDAH—
See Qatar; interior,
JADlDAH—
See Qatif Oasis ; springs.
JADlDAH (B ir-al)—
An important well near D5hah (q.v.) in Qatar, Eastern Arabia,
JADlR (A l ) (I sland)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side,
JADRIYAH—
The name of a locality on the left bank of the Tigris {q.v.) immediately below
Kut-al-Amarah.
JADWAL—
A depression skirting the south side of the district of Aflaj (q.v,), in Southern Najd.
JADWAL AGIL—
jadwal shaikh-
two hamlets in the Hadhramaut, Southern Arauia. The both lies on the route
between Balhaf and Yashbum, at distances of 50 and 571 miles respectively from the
former.
JAF—
See Kurds.
J AFAIDBIY AH—
See Lailah.
JAFAIFAH—
See (Jabal) Shammar.
JAFAIN—
See Biyadh, part 2.
JAFAINAH—
See Masqat Bay and Town,
j AFAR—
A watering plac^ without fixed inhabitants, in the Badiyah (q>v.) Oasis of the
'Oman Sultanate.

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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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