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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [94r] (192/982)
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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BtjRGUK—
A village in Kirman near Shahabad (q.v.).
BURIABAD—
A ruined village 16 miles from Fathabad on the road to Main and about
1 mile distant, on the west bank of the river Knv.—(Grahame, 1908.)
BURIAL—L at. (S. peak) 28° 28' 59" N. Long. 51° 11' 41" E. Elev. 2,682'.
A remarkable peak in Ears on the Kuh-i-Mand range, behind Bul’Khair.
This peak is also called Asses’ Ears. It consists of two pinnacles close to
gether, on the summit of the range, with a third and smaller one on their
north side ; it is visible about 50 miles seawards. (Constable — Stiffe —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot—Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
BURAKI—
There are five separate villages of this name in the plain of Khisht (q-V.).
BURAKl BALA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears, 28 miles from Shiraz, on the road to Lar. It is the second
g t a ge on the road. Drinking water has to be brought from a distance of
4 miles. —{Hdji Mirzd Sdiad Hasan.)
BURD-I-SHlRAZ—L at. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears near Bavanat, on the eastern road from Shiraz to
Yazd. -(MacGregor.)
BURIAI (?)—Lat- El ® v -
A pass 6— miles west of Kuh-i-Rukh on the Isfahan- Arabistan road. There
is a small spring of water on the east and another somewhat larger on the west
side i a mile below the pass, where it is practicable for artillery ; no fuel ;
below the pass to the west at a distance of a mile is a large area of cultivated
arnmifl Sheep are pastured on adjacent slopes in summer: to the west rises
the Jehan-Bin mountain.-(^eore.)
BURJ-I-DARGHA, see D ARB AND.
BURJ-I-DUKHTAR, see DARBAND.
BURJ-I-HAJlABAD (vide Hajiabad)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears, situated at the eastern extremity of Lake Niriz on the
Elev.
Long. Elev.
road from Shiraz to Kirman.—HLovett.)
BURJ-I-KHAN BAKR-Lat. Long.
A village in the plain of Khisht (q.v.).
BURJ-I-QAID MUHAMMAD TAQI-Lat.
> A village in the plain of Khisht (q.v.).
BURJ-I-TIMUR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A tower above the village oi Dasht /Vrjin in Flis.-fTrolter.)
112 I. B.
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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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