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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎277v] (559/652)

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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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546
SHA-SHA
Name.
Alu Mihtari
Anguru
Position.
3 miles south by
east of Shamil vil-
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
100 huts of Persians,
Shi'ahs.
RSghh
30 miles west-north-
west of Bandar
Abbas.
13 miles north-east
of Bandar Abbas
but only 20 feet
above sea-level.
30 houses of Persians,
Sunnis.
40 permanent date
leaf huts of Persians,
Shi ahs: the number
of the inhabitants
varies greatly
Banuband
Pilandu
cording
season.
to the
12 miles north-west
of Bandar Abbas.
20 miles west by
north of Bandar
Abbas near the left
bank of the Rud-
i-Kul.
20 houses of Persians,
Shi’ahs.
Half-a-dozen houses
of Persians, Sunnis.
There are about 100 date
palms, and a large area is
sown with barley. Cattle
are about 100 and sheep
and goats 200. Water for
all purposes is from the
Zaiuvi stream. The an-
nual malldt is 50 tu-
mans.
Dates, barley and wheat are
cultivated and there are
500 pa;m trees ; 20 cattle
and 60 sheep and goats.
The annual mdlidt with
seve: al adjacent small
villages is 175 tumdns.
The first stage on the cara
van route from Bandar
Abbas to Kirman. The
village, which is sur
rounded by date- groves,
with a rocky eminence in
the middle, is sub-divided
into the three hamlets of
Karim abad, Husainabad
and Baghu proper. r J he
date crop averages 12,000
Abbasi mans (of 91b)
annually, and much fire
wood is collected and sold
in Bandar Abbas. Water
is Tom a canal from Rung ;
there are weT a so but
they aie brackish. There
are 50 donkeys and 200
sheep and goats. The
vi 1 age and its lands
belong to the Agha Khan
of Bombay and pays 40
tumdns of annual revenue.
There is a Qadamgah of
Murtaza ’All.
Wheat and barley are grown.
Water is from wells, 30 feet
deep. The only animals
are : 10 camels, 30 donkeys
and 100 sheep and goats.
The annual mdlidt is 15
tvmdns. ji
Woollen ’ohas and docks
are manufactured. Water
is brackish from a well,
55 feet deep. Livestock
are: 8 cattle and 50 sheep
and goats.

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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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