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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [79v] (163/982)
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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148
BAS—BAS
Qishm Island and the main la nd ; it is a low coast, and the greater part of it
has not as yet been satisfactorily examined. The village of Khamir, situated
14 or 15 miles west of the Kud-i-Kul, divides the coast into two portions,
of which the western appears to be the exit of a great valley from the west,
possibly of the long trough which lies behind the maritime range of the
ShibKuh and Lingeh districts, and contains Galleh-Dar, Ishkanan and Tara-
kimeh. Off this part of the coast line lie miles of swamp, from which
most of the firewood used in the lower part of the Gulf is obtained ; the
marshes are intersected by numerous creeks, difficult of passage except for
; small boats. , t.
The maritime range which forms the northern boundary of the Lingeh
district and which has already been described in the articles on that dis
trict and on Shib Kuh, encloses this part of Bastak on the south ; and the
district appears to be intersected by a higher range, similar in direction,
which leaves the coast at Khamir village. This last range has two principal
; summits near Khamir; one, which is 9 miles north-east of the village and
even nearer the coast, is 3,700 feet high and another, 12 miles north-
. west of Khamir, is even loftier but is less bold in outline. From the higher
peak a spur runs off south-eastwards in the direction of Khamir ; its foot
hills contain deposits of sulphur.
The following are the principal places on or near the Bastak Coast :
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
Khamlr
On the coast 12 miles
west-north-west of
Laft on Qishm Is
land.
—
See article Khamir.
Lashtaghan..
2 miles west of Kham-
40 houses. The
The people own 6 fishing
ir.
people are mostly
Sunnis.
boats and engage in
petty trade. The vil
lage is under the Kal-
antar of Khamir.
MehtabI
On the coast, about
20 miles north-east
of Lingeh.
20 houses
This is the port of the
Ishkana district, and is
also a mart for firewood,
charcoal and sail-cloth
made at Dishkun, the
V f -
trade being mostly with
Trucial ’Oman. Here
are fishing-boats and
a good harbour to keep
them in. Mahtabi is
'
directly under the Gov
ernor of Bastak. The
Im perial Pers i an Cus -
toms have a post here.
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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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