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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎281r] (566/652)

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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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553
itter-
Jt to
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a«;
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led
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for
in-
rers,
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ant,
re-
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took
100
The
ilace
a is
N- me.
Isma’Il
(Chah).
Isma’ili .
(Chali).
J aghuu
JallabI
Kalat Bala
and Zlr
Kalati
Kliatun.
Kalatu
Position.
Houses and inhabit-
an s.
Remarks.
One mile west of Chah
Isma’ili.
13 miles south-east
of Shamil village.
Half-a-dozen houses
of Shi’ah s.
Half-a-dozen houses
of Shi’ahs.
Resembles Chah Isma’ili.
Wheat and barley are
grown ; the water from
wells is slightly brackish.
The revenue of this piece
together with the last is
7 miles north of
Ziarat and 4 miles
north of the Ban
dar Abbas—Kir-
man route.
6 miles south by e ist
of Ziarat on the
Rah-i-Mian and 33
miles from Bandar
Abbas on the road
to Minab.
15 miles north-west of
Bandar Abbas near
the left bank of the
Rud-i-Kul.
5 miles north-west of
Bandar Abbas.
6 miles west by north
of Bandar Abbas.
10 houses of Per
sians, Shx’ahs.
75 houses and huts
of Persians, Shi’ahs.
80 houses of Persians,
Shi ahs.
Nil.
t
20 houses of ShTal s
12 lur/.dns a year.
I he people cut wood and
burn charcoal in the hills
to northward. There are a
few date trees but no sup
plies. A shrine of Imam
Riza exists here.
The people ‘are barley-grow
ers and graziers owning 30
camels, 50 cattle and 150
sheep and goats. Water is
from wells about 25 feet
deep. The revenue assess
ment is 120 tumdns a
year.
Kalat Bala contain a
ruined mud fort, also
a shrine of Aqai Sad a
and is 2 miles north-
north-east of Kalat Zlr,
Tobacco, dates and barley
are grown. Water in
both villages is from wells
about 15 feet deep and there
are 15 camels, 40 cattle
and 100 sheep and goats.
The annual revenue is 46t
iurti dns.
This is a wilderness of ravines
and jagged sandstone
ridges, 150 feet high. The
name is said to have
belonged to a fort of which
even the traces are now
lost.
The inhabitants are d. te--
growers and gardeners...
Water is from wells.
There are 50 sheep and
goats and a few camels and
cattle. There are trace s of
an old canal from the sea,
wh'ch must have been large
enough to carry native
sailing vessels of average
size. The village has a
shrine. There are no boats.

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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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