'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎284r] (572/652)

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Name.
Pinjeh
Piyadeh .
Qadabar..
Qirtai
Qulughan .
Rahidu
RSmeh
(Bagh).
Position.
Houses and 'nha/bit-
ants.
3 miles north by
Nil
east of Bandar Ab
bas.
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On the coast 17 miles
west by" south of
Bandar Abbas.
Nil
15 miles north-north
east of Bandar Ab
bas,
15 houses of Shi’ahs.
23 miles east by north
12 huts of Baluchis
of Bandar Abbas, on
the coast route to
Mir ab.
and Persians.
22 miles east by north
of Bandar Abbas on
the coast route to
Minab at 2 to 4
miles from the sea
and 50 feet above
80 houses of Baluchis,
sea-level.
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25 miles east by north
Half-a-dozen huts of
of Bandar Abbas
and 3 miles north
of the coast at the
Shi’ahs.
mouth of the Shamil
river,
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17 miles north-north
west of Bandar Ab
bas in the southern
slopes of KuhGinau.
A couple of huts only
Remarks.
There are an old serai and
water reservoir in good re
pair, and a shrine in ruins.
A date grove.
There is a shrine of Saiyid
Abdul Qahir. The inhabit
ants are mostly beggars,
but they cultivate a little
barley and keep a few goats
and sheep. Water is from
a spring.
The people own 6 cattle and
80 sheep and goats ; water
is from wells. There are no
other resources.
The place consists of 7 small
hamlets, to the name of
each of which Qulughan is
prefixed: 4 lie north and
3 south of the caravan road.
They are ’Abdulla, Shuurt,
’Ashu Ghulam Hasan#
Mahmad Mir ’All, Mahmad
Shah, Husain Jamat and
Husain Muhammad ’Abdul
lah. The people have 40
dates trees and are graziers
owning 10 camels, 100
cattle, some donkeys and
150 sheep and goats. There
are 7 wells dug in the sand
of which the water is
brackish and very scanty.
In the v inter months the in
habitants go to the south
to the coast. Camel graz
ing is plentiful.
Water is from wells; 200
date palms have recently
been planted. A desert
tract which surrounds
Rahidu and bears only a
few gum trees is called
Rahdar ; it is low-lying, and
becomes in winter a saline
swamp.
A fruit garden watered by
a spring.
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