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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. III' [head] (5/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (234 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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Volume III of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries S through to Z, a glossary of terms used and a map (contained in a pouch attached to the back inside cover of the volume).
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.
A large fold-out map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is contained at the back of this final volume.
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- 1 volume (234 folios)
- Physical characteristics
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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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/2/3
- Title
- 'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. III'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1599:1820, 1820a:1820f, 1821:1887, 1887a:1887f, 1888:1898, 1898a:1898f, 1899:1918, 1918a:1918f, 1919:1980, 1980a:1980f, 1981:2002, 2002a:2002f, 2003:2024, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence