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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [39r] (82/982)
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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All shop-keepers are taxed at from 10 to 35 bum. The two Ribands
in the town pay 8 tumms between them The_ e_arth mentioned above
used for washing purposes only brings in 30 tumans revenue, but
tiimans are said to go to the agent. Vines are (1878) untaxed, 2 bans rent
is taken for every 9 square yards of good corn land whether sown or no .
The measure used is the long lance of 1 qafh oi 31 zira in the space of
which 21 Ardakan mans can be sown. The qafiz is properly a square i.
sure of 144 cubits—{Chesney— Felly—Durand—Vaughan, 1891.) _
ARDAL— Lat. 32° N. Long. 52° 46' E. Elev. 6,350'.
A small village, on a plateau of the same name, in the Pushtu-Kuh district
of the Bakhtiari country. It is the 5th stage from Isfahan (9- mnes)
on the Bakhtiari caravan road, by the alternative track tnrough the Tang-
i-Darkash Warkash. The village has a population of 400 m its fullest
season, which is much reduced in the winter months, when the snow lies
deeply on the plateau. Supplies are very limited at all seasons as is also
the water-supply. The kaleh of Ghulam Hu^m _ Khan the Shahab-us-
Saltaneh and Ilbegi of the Bakhtiari, is an imposing building adjoining
the village. A suite of rooms in the kaleh is designed and furnished m
the European style.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
ARDEHSHlRl—
A section of the Lur tribe of Chehar Banicheh, a_small group of lllats, who
inhabit the Bunrud, at the sources of the Kara Aghach in the mountains
west of Shiraz in Ears.— (Ross).
ARDILARl—
A tribe said to inhabit Khuzistan.— (Chesney.)
ARDUN— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,760'.
Fifty-three miles south-west of Yazd on the road to Abadeh. A village
of about 50 houses, with a fort in the centre, which is perched on a rock.
A few trees and some cultivation about. Water plentiful from a qanat
stream and from numerous springs, which rise at the head of the valley m
the low hills between which the town is situated, and along which the road
to Chfih Beg leads.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
ARGAS, see ARJASIB.
ARJASIB or ARGAS— Lat. 30° 26' N. Long. 50° 35' E.
A village in Kirman, situated in the centre of an arid valley, 8 miles
east of Khinaman —(Kirman Political Diary, 1904.)
ARJANAK— Lat. 33° 8' 20" N. Long. 49° 26' 20" E. Elev. 7,000'.
A hamlet in Luristan, north of the Kaleh Kuh range. It belongs to the
Tsawand section of the Bakhtiari tribe. It consists of a clump of stone and
mud shanties, exceedingly poor, but prettily situated at the foot of an
abrupt cliff, and surrounded by groups of trees._ Close above it is a small
lake, 100 yards by 50. The village is in close proximity to the famous
stronghold of Diz-i-Arjanak (vide this Gazetteer).—(/Sawyer, 1890.)
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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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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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