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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎94r] (192/652)

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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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DUD-DUK
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DtDAU—
A village in the Minab district (q.v.).
DtDEH (Kirman)—
t' A patch of cultivation between Minab and Bandar Abbas. (Jennings.)
DUDUYANAK—
A rounded hill in the desert of Lut in Southern Khorasan, situated on
the first march from Deh Saif on the road to BIrjand. (Khanikoff.)
DUFARSAKH—
A hamlet, consisting of two houses, in the Nehbandan buluk of Kain in
Khorasan, situated 4 miles to the south-west of Neh. Supply of sweet
water, but no supplies—(Ke^/es, 1904.)
DUGANUN—
A small village, 25 miles from Kirman, on the road to Khabis—
Mohi-ud-Din.)
DUGAZ, vide Daggaz.
DUHAT-DAILAM—
A deep bay in the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , between Ras-at-tamb and
Tinrkan. The town of Dailam is situated in it. Soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. are undei.
8 fathoms.—(CowstoWe ; Stiffe; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot.)
DUHU—
A spring of fresh water in Khorasan, 8 miles from Naspanda, on the.
alternative route from BIrjand to Neh. No habitations; fair grazmg.-
(Keyes, 1904.)
DUHU—
4 village in Kiraian, about 8 miles from the head of the Minab creek in
a Hat barren saline plain. It has large date groves round it.-(Abdul
Rahim's Diary.)
DUKALlS or KALIS—
A name given to a class of people whose trade it is to repair wells and
harm in the vicinity of the Bampur district.-(denmnjrs.)
Dl'K-DAV (Spbing) (11 alting-plaok) Lat. 28° 57' 5"; Long. 60° 32 O';
Elev. 5,222'.
Here water is plentiful and good, and grazing and tamarisks abundant
Th whole nlain (March) is a mass of green grass, wild mint, and a sort of
T i hj „T Perennial grass in the neighbourhood. From here an excellent
road runs to Ladis (local information), namely, up the Dizuk Nala to the
l oarting in the Chahdraj hills or Dizuk band, thence down to
LMis Nala to Ladis-distance about 32 miles. Water, grass, wood
and grazing are said to exist en route.— {Jennings, 1885 .)
33 in the Neh Muh of the Kain district of Khorasan.—(Mew.)

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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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