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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [124v] (253/652)
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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240
HAM-HAN
HAMGAZ—
A peak of the Jamal Bariz range in Kirman, opposite to the village of
Dusari. Under Hamgaz, and between it and Dusari are the following
villages, the property of Ghulam Riza Khan, son of Husain Khan, cousin
of Mir Dura Khan, viz. :—
Village.
Number of
houses.
Resources.
Remarks.
Hamgaz
18 or 20
Orchards, dates and
cultivation.
Residence of Ghulam
Riza Khan.
15
Ditto.
The orchards in these vil-
20
Ditto.
lages are said to be good
Dhana
Kamarkun
17
} Ditto.
and yield fine fruit.
Dates, apples, grapes,
badam dlu, zard dlu.
Maghun
Guskar
15
Ditto
20
Ditto.
dluchd, gurduh, pome
granate, and dastambar
(limes) are amongst
those cultivated.
(Brazier-Creagh, 1894.)
HAMIDABlD— Elev. 6,400'.
A summer shooting lodge situated about half a mile south of Mahum
and 200 feet above it. The Farman Farma, Nasr-ud-Din, spent a lot of
monev on it, but since his death it has gone to ruins.— (Newcomen, 1905.)
HAMZA— Elev. 2,470'.
A village of about 30 houses on the road between Khabis and Bam, where
supplies in small quantities are obtained, also water from a flowing stream,
but fuel and forage are very scarce.— (Shaikh Mohi-ud-Din, February
1895.)
HAMZAI (Peksian Baluchistan)—
A torrent-bed, marking the frontier between Persia and British Balu
chistan, some 6 marches northward from Pishin.— (St. John.)
C 7,589'.
HANAKl— Lat. about 28° 52' 30 ; Long, about 57° 20'; Elev. 4 7,980'.
( 7,750'.
— (St. John.)
A halting-place in Kirman with an unusually fine serai, 21 miles north
of Ray in on the Kirman road. Supplies and population are very scanty
but water is abundant.
A short distance from the serai is a hamlet of some 4 or 5 houses, call
ed Hanaka Bala, while some way off, under the Jupar Kuh, is another con
sisting of some 20 houses with a qandt and cultivation. In 1905 there
were not more than a dozen people living in the neighbourhood of the
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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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