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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [76r] (156/982)
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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BAN—BAR
141
BANSArI or BASARl (Tribe)—
A clan of the Arab lliats in Fars. They number only 500 families.
Vaughan says they inhabit the country between Iqlld and Khan Man ,
while Ross gives their habitat as the country from Mashhad-i-Murghab to
Pamur. Their chief (1890) is Imam Raza Khan, who resides at Shiraz.
Ross says that they breed mules and possess about 200, but they do not
keep mares for breeding purposes.— {Ross — Vaughan, 1890.)
BANU (No. 1)— Lat. 29° 33' N. Long. 51° 24' E. Elev.
A village in the plain of Khisht {g-v.).
BANt (No. 2)—
A small village reported to lie at the foot of the slopes of the hill visible
a little beyond and north of the pass between Kuh-i-Gunuz and Kuh-i-
Huvin.— {Wilson and Cruikshanh, 1907.)
BARAFTlR—L at. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Khuzistan on the road from Dizful to Khurramabad,
28 miles from the latter. {MacGregor — Mackenzie.)
BARAIM— Lat. 30° 20 / 30" N. Long. 48° 16' E. Elev.
A village on the west coast of ’Abbadan island. It contains 50 mud
houses and is inhabited by Thawamir. Haji Salbuq island ends at this
village.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BARAIMl— Lat. 27° 12'N. Long. 55° 47'E.
A village in the Bastak district of Laristan, about 33 miles west of
Bandar ’Abbas, and | mile north of the road from that place to Lar.
It consitsts of about 40 houses and 180 inhabitants, who are Sunnis by
religion and cultivate dates for a livelihood. It is the head-quarters of a
Jcaldntdr of a small sub-division. Water is obtained from wells and from
one reservoir. The inhabitants own about 60 camels, and supplies in
limited quantities are procurable. Extensive groves of date palms lie to
the east and north-east of the village.— {Butcher, 1888— Shakespear,
1905.)
BARAINl.—E lev. 40'.
A date grove, 3 miles west of Latidan, 2 cisterns (dry in March 1907);
no population.— {Wilson and Cruikshank, 1907.)
BARAJI’EH—
V A division of the Bani Tamim {q. v.).
BARAK or PARAK, see SHIB KtJH PORTS.
BARAKI— Lat. (tower in village) 28° 29'0". Long. 51° 6' 51'. Elev.
—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot.)
A general name for the group composed of the villages of Gahl, Rus-
tami, ’Umari,Khur, Shahabi, Bul-Khair, Bunju, Karri and Salim Abadeh,
which (except BuT-Khair and Bunju) succeed one another in order from
north to south. These villages occupy a narow plain between the hills
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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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