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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎117v] (239/652)

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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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226
GUH—GUL
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Viewed from the west, Guh Kuh appears as an abrupt square-shaped mass
, 0 f rock ; it is also visible from the sea, and a vignette in the Admiralty
chart shows its appearance viewed from this direction.
The village of Gvafar, which stands on the Minab-Bint road, distant
152£ miles from the former, and 85| miles from the latter place, lies a few
miles due north of the mountain.—(^aZmrfo, 188S.)
GtTIAKAN, see Hamgaz.
GUHRA—
A village of 100 houses, 48 miles north-west and by north of Bandar
Abbas. The Kaldntar (1902) is named Zulfiqar. Livestock are : 80 donkeys,
150 cattle, 1,500 sheep and goats. Good water from a kdrlz. There are
about 8,000 date-trees.—(SAer Jang, 1902.)
GtfJJARl—
The name of a halting-place between Samsur (22 miles from Nur
Muhammad Karlz, on the route to Rigan) and Jauri ndld (mile 226J on
the Sehkuha-Bampur route). The route taken by Jennings crossed the
Surabur Kutal, but he remarks that the easier route for a large force would
be by Gujjari, for then the kutal would be avoided. Water, grass, wood,
and grazing said to exist here. —{Local infoTvnalion.)
QUK —Elev. about 6,000'.
A village in Kirman, 43 miles south-south-east of Khabis, on the road to
Bam. It is a fertile and well-watered spot, situated in a barren waste
of hills, and is the head-quarters of a small district of the same name.
Guk is celebrated for its grapes, and supplies Kirman and Bam with
quantities of raisins. The average produce of the district is 800,000 lbs.
Of this, 150,000 lb go to Bam and thence to Bandar Abbas, and 184,000 lbs.
to Kirman, whence much is sent on to Yazd. The balance of the 800,000 lbs.
is consumed locally. There is also a considerable trade in pomegranates
and tobacco with Kirman. There are no traders of any kind and there is
no'bazar. In spite of the intense cold at this elevated spot, the people
wear no woollen garments, heaping on more and more cotton things as the
cold increases.— (Newcomen, 1905.)
GtL, see Arabkhaneh.
GULAbAD, see Deh-i-Gaviha.
GULABAK—
A spring in the eastern border of Kirman, some 200 miles east of that
town, on the road to Sib Kuh and Sistan.—(Awws^ew.)
GtLANDAR—
,, a. small village of about 10 families on the road between Sehlabad and
Mud by Guild, about 14 miles from the last named place. It possesses
some trees and cultivation producing about 10 kharwdrs of grain. Water
good and plentiful from a kdnz, a small amount of supplies.—(^6ku> J.U,
1907 ; Molesworth, 1907.)

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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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