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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [47r] (98/982)
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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BAG—BAG
85
including Mai Baud is under the hereditary but curtailed authority of Khuda
Karam Khan, chief of the Chehar Lang Bakhtiaris—(Bwrtow, 1903—
buthnot, 1905— Loribier, 1906.)
BAGHlN— Lat. 30° 12'N. Long. 56° 45'E. Elev. 5,603'—(£«. JoTm.)'
A village in Kirman 19 miles from the town of that name, on the road to
Yazd. It is an attractive-looking village, consisting of some 200 houses,
nearly every one of which has trees growing round it. The population is about
2,000. The place is well supplied with sweet water from 5 kdrizes, and the
inhabitants cultivate a considerable area ; 20,000 Indian maunds of wheat
and barley are produced, 10,000 Indian maunds of millet, 20 Indian maunds
of opium, besides cotton, beet-root potatoes and melons. Three hundred
camels, 700 donkeys and 500 cattle. Wood scarce, shrubs being burnt.
The village belongs to the State and pays a rental of 91,000 lbs. of grain.
There is a good
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of burnt brick and a chd'pdrkhdneh. — {Wood,
October Dobbs, WOZ—Gibbon, 1908.)
BAGH-I-NARIR—Lat. 31° 51' N. Long. 54° 22' E. Elev.
A village, 4 miles from Yazd, on the western road to Shiraz.— {MacGrego
BAGH-I-NASAR— Lat. 31° 51' N. Long. 54° 24'E. Elev. 1
A garden, 4 miles from Yazd, on the road to Shh&z.—{MacGregor.)
BAGH-I-NAU (1)—Lat. 31° 51' N. Long. 54° 24' E. Elev.
The name of the summer place near Shiraz, built by a son of Fath ’A1
Shah. It stands in the centre of a large garden.—(BssAer.)
BAGH-I-NAU— (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears belonging to the buluk of Kam Firuz {q.v.) — {Durand.)
BAGH-I-PARABARDIN— Lat. 27° 29' N. Long. 25° 1' N. Elev. 1,300'.
A deserted piece of once cultivated land, some 3 miles south of Hormuz,
on the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar road, from which it is separated by a stone wall.
—(Wilson and Cruikshank, 1907.)
BAGH-I-PARUSHUR— Lat. 27° 30' N. Long. 55° 1' E. Elev. 1,300'.
A deserted piece of once cultivated land, some 2| miles south of Hormuz,
close to the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar road.—(TFifeow and Cruikshank, 1907.)
BAGH-I-PASHI— Lat. 27° 30' N. Long. 55° 1' E. Elev.
A village near Isfahan on the road to Shushar. The remains of a large en
closure is to be seen where Shah ’Abbas is said to have had a menagerie. On
the Isfahan side the country is a great deal cultivated, the principal product
being rice ; towards the south, however, it is barren, stony, and waterless.—
{Baring.)
BAGH-I-PASLAR —Lat. 28° 28' N. Long. 52° 51' E. Elev.
A village, about 12 miles short of Baba Najm, Fars, on the road from
Darab to FIruzabad.— {Abbott.) _ , .
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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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