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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎203v] (411/652)

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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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398
MAK-MAK
Name.
Position.
Character.
Remarks.
Kupan Sar
At the foot of Siah
Kuh between it and
the sea in Dashtlarl.
Village of 12 huts of
Baluchis.
There is a little cultivation
of grain and cotton.
Lash
8 miles north of Ga-
lag and 3 miles east
of the Rapch river.
40 huts of Hots and
Baluchis.
Dates (100 trees) and barley
are grown and there are 50
camels, 40 cattle and 100
sheep and goats.
LIr
5 miles from the coast
and 10 miles east of
the Sadaich river
under Geh.
20 huts of Baluchis,
Jats and Rais.
There are about 400 date
palms and a little cultivation
of wheat? barley and joicari,
also 40 camels, 40 cattle,
and 20 goats and sheep.
Maidani
On the coast about
A broad cape with
Inland is a group of hills.
(Has)
9 miles west of the
western mouth of
the Rapch river.
sea-face of 5 miles
lying east and
west ; there are clifis
150 feet high.
3 or 4 miles in extent
and 200 feet high, which
ends at the east of the
cape in cliffs of 150 feet.
Malakx ..
6 miles north of Tis
in Geh.
A pasture ground for
cattle.
There are no habitations
here.
Milin
Between the Kair
river and the Sirgan
stream at 6 miles
from the coast under
Geh.
20 mat huts of Balu
chis. The village is
larger in the rains.
Low hills running down to
wards the coast terminate
here in Milin Kuh, 200 feet
high. There is a large
banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. tree near the
village and good water is
obtainable from wells.
Moman ..
8 miles north-west of
Parag.
20 huts of H5ts
A little wheat, barley, jo-
wari and cotton are culti
vated, and there are 20
camels and 100 goats and
sheep.
Niger
8 miles north-east of
RodI under Dash-
tiarl.
20 mud houses and
80 huts of Shaiza-
debs, Baluchis and
Julahags or weavers.
The village is a prosperous
one. Dates (100 palms)
wheat, barley, jowari,cotton-
fruit and vegetables are,
grown and livestock are
60 camels, 30 donkeys, 80
cattle and 300 goats and
sheep. Water is plentiful
and good. Here reside Mlrs
HgjI Muhammad and
Saiyid Muhammad, the
chiefs of Brls.
Nilag
3 miles east of Sand ;
under Dashtiarl.
30 huts of Baluchis .
There are many babul trees
and a little cultivation,
also a few livestock.

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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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