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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [7v] (19/652)
The record is made up of 1 volume (322 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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6
API—AHM
AFIN-I-BAND—
A barren range of bills in Basbakard. It runs east-north-east and west-
south-west, and is crossed by the Jashk-Anguran road at the Pi. au Kutal,
64 miles from Jashk, and 26| miles from Anguran.— (Medley and Massy
1893.)
AF-I-AFGHAN— Approx. Lat. 27° 49' 52" ; approx. Long. 61° 44' IS' 1 '.
This is the name of the first halting-place on the route from Gusht to
Vasht and is 14 miles from the former.
Here is the head of the Simish river, also the watershed dividing the
Simish drainage system, flowing south-east, via DIzak and Kuhak, and the
head of the Gazu Nala (called here Gad Pusht) flowing north-west and
eventually due north, via Gazu Fort, whence its name is the Talab river,
and onward it flows north-east and east, to the Mashkid river.
The Simish river is called the Mashkid river at, and after it passes, Dizak,
and until it disappears in the desert. Just beyond this place Sarhad proper
begins. The plain here, between the Sianeh Kuh, (called here Mur Pish
Kuh) and the Mianeh Kuh, is about 3 miles wide. Water abundant, but
somewhat brackish ; it comes from springs and flows into a natural tank.
Grass and wood are plentiful down the Simish river bed ; also grazing
abundant. No village or cultivation.— (Jennings, 1885.)
AFSHAN, vide Ashar.
AFSHAR—
A small sub-division of Kirman, incorporated with Aqta (q.v.). The
combined revenue of these two was, in 1903, 28,000 tumdns. — (Sylcss,
1903.)
AFSHAR (Pass)—Elev. 5,100'.
A pass in Persian Baluchistan about 12 miles north-west of Irafshan,
on the road to Magas. The track leading over it is very difficult, and is
commanded on all sides by precipitous heights. When a small party under
Major Tighe proceeded by this road from Irafshan in February 1902, 30
of his camels succumbed in effecting the crossing.— (Tighe, 1902.)
AFZALABAD—
A village in Geh on the Sirha (q.v.).
AHMAD ABAD—
A village in Kirman, 30 miles east-south-east of Bam, on the road to
Rigan.— (Sykes, 1898.)
AHMAD ABlD—
A village of some 50 houses, with a date grove, and several acres of arable
land, near Bampur in Persian Baluchistan, vide Aptar.— (Brazier-Creagh,
1893.)
AHMADABAD—
A village in the Minab district (j.c.).
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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 323.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).
Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; 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 also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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