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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [282r] (568/652)
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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SHA—SHA
555
Name.
Position.
r-
Khargun .
15 miles west by south
of Bandar Abbas
near the coast.
Khun
Surkh.
15 miles west by south
of Bandar Abbas,
on the coast.
Khurgu
In the hills 13 miles
north-west of Zi-
arat.
Kishar
Bala.
20 miles west-north
west of Bandar
Abbas, beyond the
Rud-i-Kul.
Houses and inhabit
ants.
Remarks.
10 houses of Shi'ahs
15 houses of Shf ahs
250 houses
35 houses of Sunnis.
cattle and 200 sheep and
goats; the annual revenue is
80 tumdns. A route from
here to the south-west
through Hasan Langi con
nects with the Rah-i-Mian
route, between Minab and
Bandar Abbas.
The people cultivate dates
and are fishermen. Water
(slightly brackish) is from
wells 15 feet deep ; there
are a few cattle and 40
sheep and goats. A few
small boats are owned here.
Some of the houses, 2 miles
inland, form a group call
ed Jahazi. Dates are
grown, one of the planta
tions being Toq Mahmud ;
the inhabitants fish and
are graziers, owning a
few cattle and donkeys
and 50 sheep and goats.
Water is from a cistern
and from wells.
There is a small fort and a
Qadamgah of Imam Riza
besides shrines of Murtaza
’All, Khajeh Khizar and
Bibi Shahrbanu. The
people grow dates and
barley and are wood-cutters
and charcoal-burners.
Water is from springs, two
of which are large. There
are 150 donkeys, 50 cattle
and 300 sheep and goats.
The annual revenue of the
village is 400 tumdns.
Dates are grown, stone is
quarried, and sulphur is
mined from a hill to the
north called Kuh Tan-
khah; at the last-men
tioned places a hot sulphur
ous spring exists. Water
is from 7 reservoirs, sweet,
and from wells, brackish.
There are a few cattle
and donkeys. The vil
lage possesses a shrine of
Shaikh Sangur.
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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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