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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [116v] (237/686)
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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DIH—DIH
DIH-I-NAU (4)—Lat. Lon^. i^lev.
A village in Fars miles from Murghab on the Istahan-bhiraz
road vi& Abadih. It consist of 50 flat-topped mud-housee in a small
cultivated valley, watered by a stream. [Trotter.)
DIH-I-NAU (5)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars, 16 miles south of Shiraz, on the road to Firuzabad.
It is a walled village of the common Persian type, i.e., four mud walls
and four mud towers, one at each angle. The length of a side is
about 100 feet. [Stack.)
DIH-I-NAUPANJAH (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A well-watered village in Fars with date groves, on right of the road
ffoing 1 from Karman to Bandar Abbas, about 45 miles from the latter.
[Smith.)
DIH-I-PlR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Khuzistan, one march from Khuramabad on the
road to Isfahan. [Jones.)
D1H-I-SHAH (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
Name of some ruins near Firuzabad, Fars. [Taylor.)
D1H-I-SHIR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh division of Yazd, and is situated 5
miles from, and on the southern slope of, the hills to the north of the
Abar-Kuh plain, and has a great deal of cultivation, all in terraces and
well-watered. It has 40 houses, all of mud, with domed roofs. There
is a good and new sarai here, and the remains of a strong old fort,
called Kalat Shir, said to have been built by a former king named
Muhammad Musafir, there being a fine inscription to that effect in
enamelled tile-work over the gateway. To the east is a flat-topped
hill, with scarped sides like the “ droogs ” of Southern India, called
Kalat-i-Shir. [MacGregor.)
DIHISTAN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Fars on the road from Forg to Saiadabad, situated in a
little plain covered with date-trees. [Pioneer’s Correspondent^)
DIH-I-TANG-I-KARIM—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars, 71 miles east of Shiraz on the road to Darab via
Fasa. [Ouseley.)
DIH-I-1AR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan on a tributary of a river which divides the
valley of Ram Hormuz and the lands of A1 Humism from those of the
Persian tribe of Albi Kurd. It is about 100 miles south-east of
Shustar. [Jones.)
DIH-KAID (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Bushahr district of Ears, 74 miles from Bushahr, and
18 miles from Gisakhan. It has 200 houses, and pays 700 tumslns
revenue. [Felly.)
DIH KALAN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kurdistan 21 miles south-east of Sihna, on the road to
Hamadan. It is supposed to be the same as Ghulam.
[Rich, from PI alive information^)
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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:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by 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)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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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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