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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎81r] (166/652)

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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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from Kashi and 8 or 9 from Surag. Here water is found after rain in hole
in the rocks and generally lasts about a month.—(Pierce.)
DARZlN— Elev. 4,360'.
A village in the Bam district of Kirman, 16 miles west-north-west of
the town of Bam on the Bam-Kirman road. The name is said to be a
corruption of Darzanan (which means Gallows-Erecting), because at this
spot, according to local legend, Faramurz, son of Rustam, was hanged
by Bahman.
The village consists of about 100 houses and in 1902 paid 217 iwmaws
of revenue, being, for Persia, very moderately assessed.
There is a considerable area under poppy cultivation, the seed-heads
being enormous and about twice the size of those produced in India.
There are also about 500 acres under wheat, of which some 3,000 mans
are produced annually. There is a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and mill, and scattered
round the village a number of walled gardens, in which grow vines, fig
pear, pomegranate and mulberry trees. About 2 miles to the east of the
village a line of mud forts, named Arzerin, Tarkistan, Antuk and Feluku
stretch across the valley. They are built of sun-dried brick, but are
now in ruins. To the west of the cultivated area lies a small hamlefr
called Padva. Darzln was, in the twelfth century, the centre of a well-
populated and highly cultivated region ; Zain-ud-Din, who visited it at that
period, remarking that in the whole of Ears he had not seen such a spot.—•
(Sykes; Dobbs, 1902 ; Newcomen, 1905.)
DAS—
A village in Kirman, 118 miles south of Kirman by the road fromKirmau
on the road to Bandar Abbas.
DASHKIRDI—
A village in Rudbar (q.v.) in Kirman.
DASHKIRDISH—
A village in Rudbar (q.v.) in Kirman.
DASHT—
A name given the coast districts of Persian Baluchistan south of
Geh and Bint. They are understood to be Kair and Bir, east of the Rapcfi
river, and Karvan and Surag to the west of the same. The whole is also
called qibleh, a term referring to the westerly position of this tract with
reference to the rest of Makran. The district is not mentioned by Lorimer.
In the time of HajI ’Abdul Nabi the Dasht was dependent on Geh, and
the Bulidi chief of that place drew the following revenue from it :—
Karvan .. .. .. ... 40 Sitarami ducats.
Baak .. .. .. .. 40
SSra S ” •• - .. 40 „
Fishermen of the Rapch river .. ..40 ,, ,,
Total .. 1.60 ducats
which at Rs. 5$ a ducat would amount to Rs. 880.
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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