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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [151r] (306/652)
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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The plain of Jlruft is important ; the richness of its soil and the quality of
its crops could be vastly increased. A large amount of grain and forage
could be collected in this province and in Rudbar, and transported over the
Deh Bakn Icutal for storage at Bam, Rayin, or Mahun in case an occupa
tion of any of these places became necessary for the protection of southern
Persia and our seaboard.
InJiruftin 1905 the permanent habitations could be numbered on the
fingers at one counting. A small fort, a water-mill and a few mud huts,
at Dusari, the capital; a 12-roomed mud hut,' owned by a Hindu trader*
one Manumall, at Gaz Sala; two water-mills and one mud hut at Hukirfl
with the house and hammdm of Muhammad Khan a mile from this village
These are all the permanent buildings in Jiruft. Yet there are in the val
ley 300 villages or village sites, on which year after year tribes erect their
hovels of branches and mats or their black blanket tents. There are no
trading centres in the district.—(i^u/er, 1876 ; Brazier-Creanh 1891 • Sykes
1902 ; Newcomen x 1905.) ’ ^ *
JORAKH NALA—
A watercourse met with on the road between Talk and Gusht about 171
miles from Nahu the second stage on that route, and half a mile from Kud
There is perennial water here.—(Jennings.)
JO WAR AN, KUH-I
A range of hills in Kirman, situated on the north-east of Rabur. The
road from the latter place to i ayin runs to the south of it.— (Sykes, 1900.)
JUFTRU - —
A village m the Nehbandan buluk of the Kain district of Khorasan
— (Bellew.)
JUGU MAK—
A village near Chari (q.v.) in the Kirman district.
JUHLDAR NALA (Kirman)—
ZaHl"^ 5 traVer3ed by one of the Jalk -L5di3 roads between Nabs and
mUes'ln ibUt " y t0 ^ PahflrS mU ’^ t0 contai ' 1 Perennial water a few
Jt)I ROM! (Kirman)—
edge of the desert between^hOTltnlnTKirmSn^IurabTOri*" 8 d” 5
( f SS) age0£DehSaif ’ tte the southernedgffof^his desert!—
JULGEH-I-BlRJAND—
The name given to the combined valleys of Mod and Birjand.— (Rororw.)
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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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