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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎29r] (62/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 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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AMA—AMA
49
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Jilutlar (“ the caravan loaders” ).
Katirji (“ the muleteers”).
Sarvan (“ the camel-drivers ”).
Farrash (“the carpet-spreaders”).
Mumsarim.
Zmbardar (“the saddle-bearers”).
Zarini (“the golden”) living in Madianrud.
Zarini Chikai (“belonging to the golden hill”).
Zandieh, descendants of the tribe of Karim Khan Zand.
SLIravand, only twenty families.
Shiravum ^
Rika i
Ruk ruk |
Khurramabadi
Kurrai Gai
Naubidar
Kamalvand
Padurvand
living near Khurramabad.
Bell (1884) gives the divisions as follows
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f KushkI . • *
Zivakdar
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’Aumleh .. '
Umrai
| Mirakhur .. j
Katirjl
2,000 families
i
1 Ghulam
Mutamad
Rukruk
^ Zuleh
’AMALEH-I-ILKHANI—
(Layard — Schindler.i
These tribes are Deh Ki kins,
who cultivate the khaliseh or Crown
lands at Khurramabad, Saimarreh,
Tirhan, and Kuhdasht. They do
not migrate at all. They axe very
lightly charged, the cultivation of
the Crown lands being accounted
A clan of Iliats inhabiting a tract from Kunar Siah, near Firuzabad in
Southern Fars, to Kaleh-i-Kudian. They consist of about 1,000 families,
have no special herds, but keep about a hundred mules.— {Ross.)
’AMALEH KARIM KHAN— Lat. 32° 22' N. Long.AS 0 12' E.
A village in Northern ’Arabistan, about 12 miles from Dizful, between
west and south-west, and 5 from Bunvar Nazir. It is situated in the tract
known as Milk-bin-Mu’alla. This is a settlement of 200 households,
mostly of Dinarwand Lurs, the remainder being Sagwand Lurs, Kurds
and a few Arabs. They inhabit huts in summer and tents in winter, and
possess 60 rifles. The village lands are irrigated by canals from the
Karkheh and Bala Rud, and produce wheat, barley, rice, millet, lcunjld r
mash and musk melons. Livestock is mares, mules, donkeys, and many
cattle and sheep, also buffaloes. _
The Dinarwands immigrated from Pusht-i-Kuh with the grand-father
of Karim Khan. ’Amaleh is the word in Pusht-i-Kuh for personal follow
ing. Karim Khan and his brother, Papi Khan, are alive.—(Pemem Gulf
Gazetteer, 1908.)
’AMARAT (PUL-I-)—Lat. Long. Elev. 3,100'.
Tire second, from Nasiri. of the two wire suspension biidges, built in 1899
1900 by Messrs. Lynch Brothers for the Bakhtiari Khans, on the road to
112 IB G

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

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 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 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 489; 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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