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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎944] (1011/1050)

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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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944 JAS—JAU
JASIM ( N ahr B in)— /
One of the tracts which go to make up the Kut-al-Amarah Qadha (<7. i;.).
JASRAH—
See Bahrain Island ; Towns, Villages, etc.
JASHRAH (R as-al)—
See Bahrain Island ; features of the coasts.
J ATI Y A—
See Khatam.
JASSAN—
A town in 'Iraq situated 41 miles by road northwards of Kut-al-Amarah. It is an
Arab town of 400 houses and is built on a low mound with a number of date gardens
adjoining it. The river is some 3 miles south-east of the town and the water-supply of
Jassan comes from a canal which loads from the river. The water is brackish but
quite drinkable. Jassan is a halting-place on the route from Kut-al-Amarah to Badrah
and Zorbatiyah and can generally provide a fair amount of livestock and fodder. It
was formerly a second class Nahiyah of the Badrah Qadha which latter was estimated to
contain some 15,000 souls.
Hor Jassan, which approaches the town, is part of the large saline Suwaikiyah marsh
extending most of the way from Mandali to Kut-al-Amarah.
JASSASlYAH—
See Qatar; interior.
JAU—
Locally pronounced Y5 : a small district of Independent 'Oman situated between the
'Oman Sultanate and Trucial 'Oman and including, at its north-western and most im
portant part, the oasis of Baraimi. The boundaries of Jau are indefinite, but the tract
embraces Jabal Hafit with the villages near the southern end of that range ; the country
visible from the top of the Baraimi fort is mostly situated in Jau. Jau is a plain. On
the south-east, the side on which it adjoins Dhahirah, it is stony with a little scrub
jungle.
The following are the principal places and features of Jau :—
Place or feature.
Baraimi Oasis
Position.
Nature.
Remarks.
See
Baraimi Oasis.
article
Hafit (Jabal)
Begins 4 miles south
of Baraimi village
and runs thence
about 24 miles in a
southerly direction.
A range of hills
The direction of the
range is north and
south and its maxi
mum elevation
above the J a 11
plain is about 1,500
feet. The plain
close to its western
flank is strewn with
talus.

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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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