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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎212r] (428/652)

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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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MIM-MIN
415
MIMGAST (Nala)—
A gravelly nala in RUdbar, whicli is crossed by the road from Kahn-i-
’Ali to Kuhtak, 12| miles from the former place .—{Medley and Massy,
July 1893.)
MINAB or MlNAO (Khur or Kaur)—
A salt-water creek in the Minab district providing a partial and imperfect
approach from the sea to the district capital of Minab: its mouth
is situated about 33 miles east by south of Bandar ’Abbas and 19 miles
west by south of Minab town. The bar of the creek is nearly dry
at low water. The Khur runs inland at first in a north-easterly direc
tion for I-*- miles through sand and mud flats, then for 2 miles south-east
wards between banks overgrown with mangroves, and finally for 4 miles to
the east-north-east to its head, where is situated Tiab, described else
where among the villages of the Minab district, the landing-place for Minab
town and an Imperial Persian Customs station. A mud flat continues 2
miles beyond Tiab in the direction of Minab town, between which
and the landing stage, goods are transported on camels and donkeys.
At certain seasons there is a considerable trade, as many as 20 boats
arriving and leaving on the same day ; these are mostly from Qishm
and Bandar Abbas, but a few are from the coast of Arabia and even
from India. The Minab creek makes an indifferent harbour : the bar
as already mentioned is shallow, while the inner channel, which at its head
degenerates into a mere ditch, cannot be used by native boats exceeding
20 tons’ burden, and at low water is impracticable even for these. During
a shimdl vessels can neither enter nor leave Khur Minab and accidents
in attempting to do so are not uncommon.— {Lmmer, 1906.)
MINAB or MINAU (District)—
A comparatively rich and important but not a very extensive district,
the first of those on the Persian side within the entrance of the Persian
Gulf; it is situated between the Persian littoral district of Shamil on the
north and that of Biaban on the south.
The Minab district is bounded on the west by the sea ; on the north by
Limits a line running from the mouth of the Shar il
river to the Zindan hills so as to pass im
mediately north of the village of Mian Shahr ; on the east by the crest
of the Zindan hills till the village of Garuk is almost reached. At this
point the boundary turns to the south-west and passing between the villages
of Taling and Garuk leaves the village of Guvasmand in Biaban and then runs
westward by southward to the sea between Ziarat in Minab and Bundram
in Biaban. With these limits the district has a length of about 45 miles and
a depth inland at about 25.
The Minab district is a plain reaching from the foot of the hills on the
Physical characteristics and east to the sea. The coast generally is low and
climate. swampy, with a number of creeks too small to
admit native craft of more than medium size and containing as a rule only
salt-water ; of these the principal is Khur Minab, which is elsewhere described
under its own name. Near the coast the country is everywhere a saline

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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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