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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [251r] (506/686)
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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479
NAH—NAI
the Shatait. The Hardan tribe of Chab Arabs live about here in
their tents. (Ross.)
NAHR-I-MASRtJKAN—Lat. Lon^. Elev.
The ancient name of the Ab-i-Gargar canal in Khuzistan. (Layard.)
NAHR-UL-FELLAHllH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A canal in Khuzistan, which connects the Kanin with the Jarahi
river. It is generally about 16 feet wide, and is navigable for boats.
It is used in travelling between Hindiau and Muhammarah. (Relly.)
N AHR-UL-JABAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A canal in Khuzistan, crossed 6 miles from Abdul Hassan, between
Hindiau and Muhammarah. (Pelly.)
NAlN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in the district of Yazd, 268 miles from Tihran, on the
road to Yazd, from which it is 80 miles distant. It is 93 miles east
of Isfahan.
Nam is a small town, rather less than a mile in circumference,
enclosed by a dilapidated wall and ruinous ditch, and entered by five
gateways. It is situated on an uneven part of a great plain, a
short distance south of some mountains which intersect the flat
country at this part. With the exception of some trifling patches
of cultivation and a few gardens of fruit-trees, the environs appear
perfectly sterile, and the aspect of the place is rendered still more
wretched by the ruins of mud walls which surround it. It possesses
a small bazar of soire seventy or eighty miserable shops, in which
petty trades are carried on, such as smiths, dyers, makers of felt,
cotton-beaters, &e., and one shop in which Manchester goods are sold.
The place contains nothing else worth remarking, unless it be the prin
cipal mosque, which is built on an unusual plan, and contains an ancient
pulpit bearing the date 721 A.H.
A ruined mud fort stands within the town, which latter possesses
some 400 or 500 houses, and a population estimated at 5,000. Its in
habitants speak a dialect of their own, which is said to be the ancient
language of the Gabrs, who occupied this place at one time. Nam is
the^principal place in a district extending from south-east to north
west about 54 miles, and from north-east to south-west about 77 miles,
in which space there appear to be eight villages and some three hundred
hamlets. Many of the latter are tenanted each by a very few families.
The productions of the district consist of barley, wheat, cotton, all in
trifling quantities, and fruits, such as melons, grapes, and pomegranates.
The revenue of this part of the country is taken according to an
estimate of the value of the water in the villages or lands. This reve
nue is called f banichah/ and is of ancient custom, and amounts to
only 1,605 tumans—a miserable sum to be derived from so large a
tract of country ; but the district, owing to the scarcity of water, is not
a fertile one, and it is much exposed to the forages of Bakhtiarls. The
old fort is described as being in the middle of the town on a mound of
clay. Its central portion, or citadel, stands some sixty feet above the
level of the town. The main fort has many old towers, some vaulted
chambers under the citadel, and dry wells. A wall with towers surrounds
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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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