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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎59v] (123/652)

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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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110
BUN—BUR
thln Pass to DIzak. At 6f miles from Daff-i-Afi the Surkh Nala joins in
from the west and from this point onwards the nala is called the Kalaghan.
— {St. John-, Jennings.)
BUNSUR—
A village in Bashakard, about 3J miles south-east of Ramlshk, on the
road to Fanuch.— {Sykes, 1898.)
BUQ— Lat. 29° 4' 39" ; Long. 61° 3' 0"; Elev. 3,296'.
A halting-place in a ndld of the same name west of the Talab Hamfm
on the road from Jalk to Ladis. 154 miles from Jalk. It lies at the junc
tion of the shorter desert route with this one. By the former, which goes
through the desert skirting the hills, Buq is 126 miles from Jalk. Grass,
grazing, wood fairly abundant. Water plentiful of excellent quality.
The Bhq ndld is a tributary of the Talab river, which itself a tributary
of the Mashkid river. From the halting-place onwards up the ndld there
is no water.
BURABAD—Lat. 29° 5'. " •
A village in Kirman near Bam.— {St. John.)
BUR AVAR (Kirman)—
Some small villages and date plantations, 3 miles from Bam, on the
road to Bampur.— {Goldsmid.)
BURGAH—
A village in Rudbar {q.v.) in Kirman.
BURHANZAIS—
A section of the Bamari tribe.— {See article on Sarhad.)— {Jennings.)
BURJA—
A small circular fort in Persian Baluchistan, situated between Rigan and
Na’imabad, at a distance of 29 miles (by a very tortuous route) from the
fprmer and 10 miles from the latter. When Pottinger visited this place
in 1810 he found a village within the fort of 50 or 60 houses. His
account of the surrounding country is attractive, and from the snow-clad
mountains visible to the westward, the number of running streams and
the variety of trees, the scenery may well be, as he describes it, “ beautiful
in the extreme.” Amongst the trees he noticed the pipal {Ficus religiosa),
mm {Melia azadirachta), babul {Mimaso arabica), and gaz (Indian tamarisk)
besides the mango, walnut, and wild almond. He saw barley being cut in
this neighbourhood in the end of April, and found the grain still more
generally ripe at that early period as he advanced to the westward.—
2,600 {St. John) {Pottinger.)
BURJ-I-AGHA MUHAMMAD KHAN— Elev. 2,440.' Lat. 28° 48' 5"
A village in Kirman, on the road from Bam to Rigan, 38 miles from
the former and 15 J miles from the latter place.

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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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