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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎45r] (94/652)

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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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BASlE.AN —Lat. 31° 37' 24"; Long. 59° 4' {Lentz) ) Elev. 4,800'—
{Sykes.)
A village, 31 miles from Neh, in the Nehbandan sub-division o4
the Kain district of Khorasan, on the road to Birjand. About 12 miles
south-east of this village are some ancient copper and lead mines, situated
at a place called Kalazarl, which have not been worked for 1,200 years.
The plain between Basiran and Sar-LChah is clayey and saline, and in
many places affords excellent pasture for sheep and camels. The rocks
are often ferruginous. Basiran is on the borders of the Dasht-i-Lut.—
(Khanikoff.)
BASREH—
A village in the Mmab district (q.v.)-
BAT—
A hamlet in the Bampusht sub-district of the Saravan province of
Persian Baluchistan. It is situated a few miles south of Murti among
the Dalikin hills.—(%/fes, 1S91, jrom native information.)
BATUMAL — See Bid, Kuh-i-
BAURUHl—
A village among the Bampusht hills of Persian Baluchistan, about
3 miles north-east of Maindar. Supplies are procurable in small quanti
ties.— {Orton, 1902.)
BAtlZAR (?)—
A place near the left bank of the Minab river, to the south of Mmab. It
marks the south-east end of the thick belt of date and other fruit trees
which extends across the Mmab district.— {Abd-ur-rahim.)
BAVA—
A town of Persian Baluchistan, three days’ march from Chahbar.—
{Hdji Abdul Nabi.)
BAVAJGUN—
A village in Rudbar {q.v.) in Kirman.
BAVAR-I-DAN—
A range of hills in Persian Baluchistan, easi, of Jashk, near the shore of
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It is also known by the names Daragh Righ and Jabal
Ubza”.— {Johnston.)
BAZ (Persian Baluchistan)—
A halting-place 12 farsakhs from Bampur, on the road to Sib and
Panjgur, Baluchistan.— {Kinneir.)
BAZ GAR (Kutal) Elev.
A kutal in Kirman, which is crossed by the road from Minab to Rigan,
about 66 miles from the former place.
61 I. B.
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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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