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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [50v] (105/982)
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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92
BAI—BAT
Tho r venuo pa^ by them is 9,000 tumdns. The chiefs were Lutf ’Alt
Khan and ’Abbas Quii Khan. The name of a section of this tribe is Harh.
Order is maintain d in this country by a force of about 100 sowars.
These people are in very great distress on account of the tyranny of their
rulers .—(Yusuf Sharif, 1889,)
BATRAND— Lat. Long. . Elev.
A large village in Laristan, 18 miles from Bandar ’Abbas, on the road by
Darab to Shiraz. There is a small fortalice here, with some date groves
and gardens round. Water is procured from wells and reservoirs. Fuel is
very scarce, camel dung being principally used here.— (Jones.)
BAIT ABD-USH-SHAIKH—
A section of the Ka’b tribe (q. v.).
B AIT A V AND—
A tributary of the Karun river in Khuzistan, which joins it shortly before
it forces its way through the gorge of Kuh-i-Fidalak. It is said to be salt.
— (Layard.)
BAIT ’AZlZ—
A section of the Ka’b tribe (q. v. ).
BAIT BIN ’ATAIWl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It contains 20 mud huts,
and is inhabited by Bait-i'Kan’an (Muhaisin). (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.)
BAIT GHANIM—
A section of the Muhaisin tribe (q. v.).
BAIT HAjI ’ABDULLAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’ Abbadan island. It contains 40 mud houses
and huts, and is inhabited by Dvis.—(Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
BAIT HASAN-UL-HAJl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the river Shatait (q. v. ).
BAIT KAN’AN—
A section of the Muhaisin tribe (q.v.).
BAIT KHAZ’AL—
A division of the Bavieh tribe (q.v.).
BAIT MUHARIB—
A division of the Zarqan (q.v.).
BAIT RAHAMEH—
A division of the Bavieh tribe (g.vd
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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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