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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [136r] (276/686)
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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249
GER-GHA
300 feet; stream small; fordable except in flood; bottom sound j banks
low; then ascend 425 feet. {Napier, 1876.)
GERtJS—Lat. Long. Elev.
The district of Gems, one of the hereditary chiefships of Western
Persia, covers a large area between the districts of Khamsah and Kur
distan, and the provinces of Azarbaijan and Karmanshah.
The surface is broken by the drainage of the Kizil Uzan into a
number of wide level plateaux, culminating at one central point in
rocky elevations, and round the edges falling abruptly into a labyrinth
of ravines to the drainage level. The valleys and glens are well
watered and fertile, but their area bears a very small proportion to the
whole. The extensive plateaux are almost destitute of vegetation, and
barren to all appearance, but have an excellent soil, and with season
able rains bear large crops of wheat and barley.
As much as fifteen-fold is commonly stated to be yielded under
favourable conditions. The rocky elevations and the unploughed por
tions of the plateaux afford pasturage, seemingly poor in quality, but
of unlimited extent.
Various computations place the number of villages at about 500,
with an average of thirty houses each. For the most part they are
small, there being but two, Khasrabad and Najafabad, of over a hun
dred houses.
These have about 300 each, and Bijar 1,500. Hence the popula
tion may be roughly estimated at 80,000 to 85,000 souls. Kurds,
Turks, and Persians, that is clans speaking Persian, but of obscure
origin, are found in about equal proportions.
To the south and west the Kurdish element predominates, to the
north the Turkish. The revenue of the district, estimated at about
12,000 tumans = £4,800, is assigned to the chief, who furnishes to
the Shahi army one regiment of 800 men and 850 artillerymen, for
the most part in the Turkish villages.
Morier speaks of Gerustan as a district 5 days^ journey south of
Miana, in which district the Kizil Uzan rises. {Napier.)
GHABR or GHEBAR—
The name of a large religious sect, which has still many followers
in Persia. They are so well known under the name of Parsis in India
that it is unnecessary to describe them here. It may be mentioned
that the Ghabrs, or fire-worshippers, of Yazd deal chiefly in opium.
They have a stone tower and platforms, where they expose their dead.
Chan and Mubarik villages, about 8| miles from Yazd, are inhabited
by Ghabrs. ■’AHabad near Taft, also, is one of their chief villages, and
they own 200 out of its 1,000 houses. {MacGregor — StacJc.)
GHAIYASABAD —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village about 9 miles from Fasa, on the road thence to Darab, Fars.
{Abbott.)
GHARD FILUMARZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Yazd district, 6 miles west of the town of Yazd. It
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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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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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