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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [309v] (623/652)
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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610
ZAI—ZAN
kharwdrs or 850 Indian maunds which does not suffice for the wants of the
people who in consequence are obliged to import from Sistan.
Animals are :—10 head of cattle and 300 head of sheep and goats.
There is abundant grazing for camels and sheep, and a good supply of
fuel consisting of Tak, Gaz, Ghich, etc-.
He estimates the population at 10 families or 30 to 40 souls.
The village pays malidt of krdns 77 and Sargaleh to the amount of krdns
180 .
Roads branch off from here to Sistan, Neh, Shusp and Duruh.
(Yate; Wanliss, 1903Keyes, 1906; ‘Abbas AH, 1907; Gibbon, 1907.)
ZAITl or SA1DI— Lat. 27° 48' 52". Long. 62° 7' 0".
The second stage of a route from Jalk to Ladis vid Nahu, and the desert
route skirting the hills. It is 49 miles from Jalk and 11 to Makun Tuk,
the third stage. There are several sweet springs here. Grass, wood,
and grazing abundant.— {Jennings.)
ZAMALABAD—
A village in Rudbar {g.v.) in Kirman.
ZAMIA MULLA— Lat. 26° 44". Long. 57° 26'.
A small well-treed plain in the west of the Bashakard district of Persian
Baluchistan, between Taling in the north-west and the river Darpahan on
the east.— {Floyer.)
ZAMlN BUZURG—
A village in Rudbar (q.v.) in Kirman.
ZAMlNDAR—
A halting-place in Persian Baluchistan two stages from Ramishk, on
the road to Jashk.— (Hdji "Abdul Nabi.)
ZAMIN-I-KHAN— Elev. 3,500',
A halting-place in Persian Baluchistan, on the Fehruj-Magas road, 54 miles
from the former ; no village near here nor supplies ; water scanty, but
fuel abundant.— {Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
ZAMlN-I-SANG—A place in the district {q.v.),
ZANGALl—
A river crossed by the road from Bandar Abbas to Jashk, about 45
miles from the latter.—(PeZZy.)
ZANG-I-AHMAD—
The highest peak in a low range north of Naimabad and Fehruj (q.v.).
Jennings says that one of his informants called the Shurgaz, Hamun. by
this name, but he doubts whether this is correct.
ZANGI AHMAD—
A small fort 8 miles south of Balffchab {q.v.) about 80 feet square. Tha
earner towers have fallen, but the tower 25 or 30 feet high above the ga teway 1
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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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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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