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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [245v] (495/652)
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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482
QIS-QIS
Name.
Haldr , .
Jijian or
Jiju n .
Karim
(Kaleh
HajI).
Kunar Siah
Kusheh ..
Kuvai. .
Kuvairzm
LSft,
Position.
Houses and inhabit
ants.
. On the north coast
70 houses of Arabs,
about 2 miles eas
of Dargavan.
t Sunnis.
In the centre of the
30 houses of Arabs,
island about 25 miles
from Qishm town.
Sunnis.
On rising ground close
Now deserted: there
to the shore of Clar-
were formerly 20
ence Strait about
mile east of the
boundary of the
British Basldu
station.
huts.
i>h On the north coast
20 houses of Arabs,
of the island 9
miles east of Basi-
du.
Sunnis.
In the centre of the
60 houses of Arabs, D
island, about 30
miles from Qishm
town and 3 miles
Sunnis.
north-west of Jijun.
On the north coast,
30 houses of Arabs T
16 miles west of
Qishm town.
Sunnis.
About 3 miles south
120 houses of Sunnis T
of Laft.
Arabs.
1
On the north coast,
about half-way
between the ends
of the island, 3J
miles on the Basldu
side of Laft point.
(
£
s
? Set
Remarks.
The inhabitants cultivate a
little barley and are weavers
of lungis and chddars.
Water is from reservoirs
and some supplies are ob
tainable.
Fishing and cattle graz
ing are the chief occupa
tions.
There are here the ruins of
a fort from which the
people of Nakhlistan take
stones for building their
huts.
Water is from reservoirs
and wells. There are 200
date palms, 4 camels, 6
cattle and 60 goats and
sheep.
>ates, barley, and a little
wheat are cultivated, and
lungis and chddars woven.
Date palms number 800 and
there are 12 donkeys, 20
cattle and 50 sheep and
goats. Water is from wells
and from a reservoir. Sup-
are scanty. There is a
e of Shaikh-a!-Barkeh.
nhabitants are fisher-
3p and goats. Water is
n reservoir,
people are fishermen
breed camels, of which
y are said to possess
Other resources are
0 date palms, 30
le and 60 sheep and
'S. Water is from wells
a small quantity of
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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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