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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [44r] (92/982)
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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BAD—BAD
79
quaintly painted and adorned with some tile inscriptions, one of which has
the date 1209 A. H. It contains several tombs carefully railed off and
hung with votive offerings. Some tombstones are scattered immediately
round the Imamzadeh and there is a cemetery hard by. In front of the
Imamzadeh is a deep spring. The place is intensely lonely ; Ihere is not
even a guardian to the shrine. Camping-ground is unlimited; water
plentiful ; brushwood for fuel ; supplies nil. -(Grahame, 1908.)
BADAMAK— Lat. 53° 12' N. Long. 54° E. Elev. 4,365'.
A good halting-place in Luristan between Dizful and Khurramabad, 109
miles from the former. It is on the Badamak plateau under the Ballch
range of hills. Low trees (oaks and others) in fair numbers cover the hill
slopes, stems 8 to 12 feet in height, diameter up to 15 inches, Firewood
plentiful. Hills elevated 700 to 1,000 feet over the camp.— [Schindler —
^ Bell.)
BADAMAN, K0H-I-, see BADAN, KUH-I-.
BADAMAN— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,500'.
A village in the Khinaman district of Kirman, situated under the
southern slopes of the Kuh-i-Badaman(g.?;.), about 21 miles west of Kirman
city. It consists of about 40 houses.—1900.)
BADAN, KUH-I- or KUH-I-BADAMAN—
A range of hills in Kirman, which runs parallel to, and a few miles to
the north of, the road from Kirman to Bahramabad.
In Curzon’s map this range is erroneously called Kuh-i-Dawiran.
(Dobbs, 1902.)
BADARIYEH—
A small canal in the Falahleh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the
right bank of the river Jarrahi, with which it is connected. The land
produces rice, wheat and barley estimated at 500 Hashim mans of each
yearly. ’Arab (Ka’b) settlements extend 1J miles along it.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BADAVAR (river) —Elev. 5,770'.
A river in the Pish Kiih division of Luristan. It is crossed at about 60
miles south-east of Kirmanshah town, on the road to Khurramabad. At
this point the river, flowing west-north-west, is about 12 yards- wide by 2
feet deep, with a swift smooth current, gravel bottom and shelving banks.
Near this point, the upper and lower roads from Harsin to Khurramabad
meet. The valleys in the vicinity of the river are well watered, and in
summer occupied by numerous camps of Lurs with their flocks and herds.—
(Burton, August 1897.)
BADBAR— Lat. 30° 20' N. Long. 53° 47' E. Elev.
A village in Ears on the road between Arsinjan and Manzinjun, half a mile
south-west of the latter ; it is almost hidden amongst trees and is every
where cultivated and planted with trees or laid out in gardens, producing
walnuts, almonds, sun-dried raisins, fruit of sinfid and pears.— (Blackman.)
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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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