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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [92r] (188/982)
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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BUN-BUN
173
BUNARI QAlD— Lat. 29° 18' N. Long. 51° 2' E. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, on the right bank of the
Rudhilleh stream, 4 miles above Dashti. The village contains 100 houses
inhabited by original Persians, and a small fort with towers. Dates, wheat
and barley are grown here, and some wool is exported to Bushire via Shif.
The villagers own 20 horses, 15 mules, 100 cattle, 200 donkeys and 500
sheep and goats.—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BUNARI SULAIMANl— Lat. 29° 19' N. Long. 51° 4' E. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, on the left bank of the Rud
Hilleh stream, 4 miles east of Bunari Qaid. It contains a small four-towered
fort, and 100 houses inhabited by original Persians. The crops include
wheat and barley, and the village livestock comprises about 20 horses and
200 donkeys, 15 mules, 100 cattle, 500 sheep and goats—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908).
BUNAlIZ— Lat. 28° 57' N. Long. 51° 8' E. Elev.
A village 19| miles east of Bushire and | mile north of the
Jehrum road, surrounded by vegetable gardens and date plantations.
The water of the village is said by the natives to be good, while all round
it is very bad. It is said by the natives to contain 300 houses, with 200
men fit for service : it possesses several small square tufangchi towers.—•
{Butcher — Stotherd.)
BUNE’SH KATU, KUH—
A range of hills in Laristan, about 3 miles south-west of Ivaz. It is
crossed °at an elevation of 4,969 feet by the Tang-i-Lizdar {q. v.).—
{Butcher, 1888.)
BUNJU-Lat. 28° 28' N. Long. 51° 12' E. Elev.
A village on the coast of the Tangistan district of Ears, 5 miles south-south
east of BuT Khair. It contains about a dozen houses inhabited by fishermen,
who own a couple of varjis and are also cultivators.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.)
BUNKHATIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of hills in Ears, south of Shiraz.— [Durand.)
BUNNEH— Lat. 30° 7' 48" N. Long. 49° 10' 18" E. Elev.
An island in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
off the coast of Khuzistan, east of Bandar
Ma’shur. It is narrow and low, being about 34 miles long. It has the
ruins of an old fort emit—{Bruchs.)
BUNNEH ’ABDULLAH JARRAH,wde GARGAR (AB-I-).
BUNNEH AHMAD—
A village in the Liravi district, about 5 miles east of Chah Tahl. It
has 35 houses. Wheat and barley are grown and the livestock consists
of a few horses, 200 donkeys, 100 cattle and 500 sheep an&goats.—(Pemcwi
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
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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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