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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎45r] (94/686)

The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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ASKANADI—Lafc. Long. Elev.
A caravansarai, 10 miles from Yazd, on the road to Kashan. {Gibbons.)
ASKARI—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Bushahr district of Ears, 45 miles from Bushahr. It
contains a hundred houses of Arabs and pays a revenue of 200 tumans.
{Petty.)
ASKAR MUKRAM—Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of the ruins of a village, 12 miles south of Shustar on the
road to Muhammarah in Khuzistau. A few mounds and heaps of rub
bish alone constitute the ruins. {Schindler.)
ASKIZAR. See Ashkizak.
ASMANABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Luristan, between Chahar-diwar and Zasnak, on the
Dizful-Zohab road. {Rawlinson.)
ISMlNGIRD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 84 miles from Shiraz, on the road to Lar, from
which it is 138 miles distant. It has a caravansarai and water. {Ross.)
ASMARt—Lat. Long. Elev.
A spur of the Bakhtiari mountains in the province of Khuzistan to the
east of Shustar. {Layard.)
ASTABANAH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, situated east of Shiraz. It produces wheat, barley,
opium, and saffron, and possesses some gardens. The inhabitants are
mostly Mullas. It is celebrated for having a large poplar tree, said to
be 400 years old. Good crockery is manufactured here. {Petty.)
ASTARABAD or ASRABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Persian Kurdistan, in the district of Mariwau. It con
tains about forty houses, separated from one another by hurdle-fences.
The climate is good. The village is about an hour's ride from
Kala Mariwan, and a few hours' journey from Banah.
[T. C. Plowden — Gerard.)
ASUPAS—Lafc. 30° 38' 45/ / hong. Hev.
A village in Ears, on the western road from Shiraz to Isfahan. It is
built round a fort on the top of a mound, has copious springs of fresh
water. The valley round it belongs to the Il-begi of the Kashkais,
whose summer quarters it is. A hill near Asupas, a spur of Kushk-i-
zard, has an elevation of some 9,000 feet. {Durand.)
ATABEG-JADAH (road) or JADAH-I-ATABEG—
Name of a route from Mal-amlr, in Khuzistan, to join the Isfahan
road near Kumishah, by Falat. {Mackenzie.)
ATGTAH—
A small tribe of K'ab Arabs, inhabiting huts near Aushar, in Khuzis
tan. They consist of some forty families, and are tributary to
Fellahiah. {Ross.)

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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.

The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:

The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.

Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.

Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

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1 volume (336 folios)
Arrangement

The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).

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