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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [149v] (303/652)
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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290
JAS—JAZ
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabit
ants.
Remarks.
Yakbuni ..
♦
3 miles east-north
east of New Jashk.
30 houses of Negroes,
Baluchis and Maids.
The inhabitants cultivate
dates (100 trees) and some
times wheat ; fishermen
deal in white-bait. They
have 10 camels, 10 cattle
and 30 sheep and goats.
They also buy and sell
cloth ; formerly they
trafficked in slaves.
Yakdar ,.
23 miles east by ■
north of New Jashk
on the telegraph
line and nearly 10
miles from the
coast.
200 houses of Neg oes,
Baluchis, Jangizais
and Maids.
Tates, wheat, maize, mash,
arzun and cotton are grown,
and 50 camels, 40 cattle
and 200 sheep and goats
are owned. There are
some traders in cloth, ghi,
Cotton, fish and dates.
Zavaru ..
ZIrkuh ..
Between the Jagln
and Gabrig rivers,
6 miles from the sea.
14 miles west-north
west of Old Jashk.
6 huts of Jangizais..
6 huts of Baluchis ..
There are 100 date palms,
50 camels, 20 cattle and 50
goats and sheep.
JASRABAD (Kirman)—
A date-palm grove, with Icariz and cultivation 12J miles from Chirkuh,
on the Kahnu-Minab road.— {Jennings.)
JAURl —Lat. 28° 5' 20 v ; Long. 60° 29' 40" ; Elev. 5,285'.
A halting-place in Sarhad, situated on a watercourse which, flowing be
tween the Chahna Shai-Hehmukki mountains on the south, and the Sura-
bur mountain on the north, to the Sarhad plateau, drains into the Sarhad
Hamun.
Jauri lies at the junction of routes to Kvash (45 miles), to Bampur (100
miles), to Rigan by Samsur (107 miles), and to Sehkuha (14 stages).
Excellent and abundant water can be obtained from springs or from the
stream, which is perennial, while some fuel and good grazing are to be had
in the vicinity. Supplies, nil. — {Jennings, 1885 ; King Wood, 1899.)
JAURl BAND (Kirman)— •
A range of hills to the south-west of Sarhad.— {Jennings.)
javanAbad—
A village in Rudbar {g.v.) in Kirman.
JAVANGr—See Chavang.
JAZIRAT ABU (or BU) MUSA— Lat. (peak in island) 25° 53' 9"; Long.
55° 2' 36" ; Elev. 360'.
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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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