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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [43r] (90/982)
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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’AWA—AZR
T7
’AW AIN AT—
A division of the Bani Tamlm (tf.v.).
* aw Amir—
A division of the Hamaid tribe (g. v.)t
AWAWIDEH—
A division of the Bavieh tribe
? AyANAT or TUMBAK— Lat. 27° 43' N. Long. 52° 15' E. Elev.
A village in the Shlbkuh district of Ears, 12 miles south-east of Kangan.
It contains 225 stone houses of Shafi’i Sunnis. The inhabitants are mer
chants, sailors, fishermen and pearl-divers, and also cultivate dates and
grain. ’ They have about a dozen trading sambuqs, plying all over the
Oulf and to Basrah and’Oman, besides 7 fishing 'amilehs. There is a
date-grove at each end of the village and a reef of rocks forms the boat
harbour. This place is farmed for 650 tumans a year. There is a post of
the Imperial Persian Customs. On the coast a little to the east of
’Ayanat is Ras As wad, where there is a pearl bank.—(Pemaw Gulf
Gazetteer, 1908.)
AYISHABAD— Lat. 31° 51' N. Long. 54° 28' E.
A village in Yazd, about 3 miles south of Yazd. It is situated on the
verge of an utterly sterile plain, but is itself surrounded by gardens.—
{Abbott.)
’AYAlSHEH— .
A division of the Bani Tamlm {q.v.),
Azad bakht—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan {q.v.).
’AZAFEH, vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
’AZiZABAD (1)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village on the road from Khurramabad to Burujird at the foot
of the Kazan or Tang-i-Mar (“pass of the snake ”) on its north side; it
stands at the head of a gorge. In May barometer 24'70°. Height 5,050'.—
{Report of a Journey through the BakMidri Country to Shushtar.)
? AZlZABAD (2 )—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Kamand Ab river in Western Burbarud, Burujird prov
ince, south of Darreh-i-Shlraz on the road from Burujird to Isfahan.—
{Schindler.)
AZNA (AB-I-)— Lat. 33° 31' 30" N. Long. 49° 31' E.
A stream in Luristan, about 60 miles east of Khurramabad.—
1890.)
? AZRAT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A long island in the river Karun, 4 miles below Kut-ul-’Abid.—(PemTm
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
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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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