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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎9v] (23/652)

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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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AMI—ANG
AMlR or MIrI (Fort)— see Jalk.
AMlRlBAD (No. 1)—
A village in Kirman, 10 miles north of Bijnabad.— (SyTces, 1894.)
AMlRABAD (No. 2.)—
A village in the Nahar jan sub-division of the Kain district of Khora-
san. It is 4 miles from BIrjand on the road to Khusf.— [Bellew ; Stewart.)
ANARISTAN— Lat. 30° 31'; Long. 57' 21'.
A hamlet 16 miles north-east of Kirman, on one of the caravan routes
to Khabis.— (Sykes, 1902.) ,
ANDEH— Lat. 28° 41' 37" ; Long. 61° 26' 9" ; Elev. 3,500'.
The ruins of a fort and village in Sarhad, 10 miles south-east of Ladis.
It consists of about 2 acres of wheat cultivation, but there are no in
habitants or houses now. The And eh Kaur is a running stream of slightly
brackish water. Firewood is procurable in fair quantities, and the graz
ing is good, but no supplies are available. In the neighbourhood is a
dense jungle of tamarisk and grass. From Andeh, the road divides, one
branch going to Ladis, the other to Mirjawa.— (Jennings, 1885; Tighe,
1902.)
f 3175' — Schindler.
ANDIGIRD —Lat. 30° 12'; Long. 57° 48'; Elev. <
(.2790'— Abbott,
A village in the Khabis district, about 40 miles east-south-east of Kir
man, and 15 miles south of Khabis on the road to Guk. It consists of
about 50 houses, is well watered, and celebrated for its oranges. A short
distance to the north of the village the fort Andigird is situated on the
crest of a hill. Supplies are fairly plentiful.— (Abbott, 1850 ; Newcomen,
1905.)
ANGER A, vide HanJareh,
ANGUK—
A village of 50 houses near Baft (q.v.) in the Kirman province.-—
Brazier-Creagh, 1894 ; Sykes, 1902.)
ANGtJRAN—
A village in Bashakard, 90| miles from Jashk, situated at the junction
of the Pahtik and Anghran rivers.
The chief town of Bashakard and the residence of the Governor is a
wretched place consisting of some 55 huts, built of date branches
covered with mats, with a population of barely 200 persons.
Its chief feature, and the only one which testifies to the former importance
of the place, is the fort, which is the principal one in the district and is thus
described by Floyer, who visited it in 1876 :—
“ The massive but now partly ruined fort of Anguran, which would hold
200 men easily, and 400 in time of war, is perched on the very apex of a

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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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1 volume (322 folios)
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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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