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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎278v] (561/652)

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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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543
SHA-SHA
N me.
Position.
Houses and inhabit-
ants.
Chahu
14 miles west-north-
A dozen houses of
west of Bandar Ab
bas on the left bank
of a watercourse.
Sunnis.'
Chakur
8 miles north by
30 houses of Sunnis.
(Chah).
east of Bandar
Abbas.
Charmai-
18 miles west-north-
25 huts of Sunnis .
dan.
west of Bandar
Abbas beyond the
Rud-i-Kul.
Chiju
1 mile from the
Half-a-dozen houses
coast, 7 miles west
of Bandar Abbas.
of Sunnis.
Chistaneh
15 miles west of Ban-
Nil .
dar Abbas on the
route to Lar and
3 miles from the
coast.
*
Chuj
17 miles north-east of
Temporarily occupied
Damagh
Bandar Abbas.
at times when there
is pasture by fami
lies of herdsmen
and came -owners
from Deh Na >.
13 miles w r est of
Nil .
Blr.
Bandar Abbas' on
the route to Lar.
Damilu
30 miles west by nor h
50 huts of Persians,
of Bandar Abbas a
little north of the
Sunnis.
route to Lar.
Remarks.
Dates are grown and there
are a couple of v;olls ; the
place has no other re
sources.
The people are graziers and
date-growers. The water,
which is slightly brack
ish, comes by qanat from
Tsin. Livestock are:
20 camels and 100 sheep
and goats. The annual
revenue is 10 lumdns.
Really a part of Kish as- vil
lage where the Kadkhuda
resides. The people culti
vate barley and possess 6
cattle and 30 sheep ard
goats. There are 5 water
reservoirs. Annual revenue,
10 iuntdns.
The people fish, cultivate
dates and own 5 cattle,
30 sheep and goats, £ni 5
small fishing boats.
There are a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and
reservoir in good repair ;
the latter contains good
water.
Water is from we^s, 15 to
20 feet deep.
A date grove with a well
of good water.
The village is scattered ; only
about half the houses are in
one place. Latidan hamlet,
3 miles to westward on the
east bank of the Eud-i-Kul
is part of Damilu. Dates
and barley are grown and
there are 100 sheep and
goats besides a few camels
and cattle. Water is fair,
fj om wells and ponds. The
headman is a Mulla. The
annual revenue is 20
tun.dns.

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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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