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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [100r] (204/982)
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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to have come from the Hindian district. They are Sunnis and speak both
Persian and Arabic. They own some 100 donkeys and cultivate wheat,
barley and a few dates. The village has been described as “ a halting-place
on the road from Bushlre to Borazjun where there are two wells of good
water,” but the authority for this report is not stated.— {Gazetteer, Persia,
Part 111, /. B., 1885—
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH BlGl.— Elev 5,140'.
Sixty-eight miles south-west of Yazdon the road to Ibadeh. A square
mud fort, containing about 15 houses. Sixteen acres of cultivation and
some trees. It is situated on hav\r soil on a perfectly level plain. Water
plentiful from a spring, with a channel from it, 6"x 24 ,, x3 // , and flowing
30 feet in 39 seconds.— {Vaughan, 1890.)
CHAH BUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 4 miles east-north-east of Burdeh
Khan-i-Nau on the Mand river plain. It contains 15 houses of Muhallis
and Hajian.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH BU ’ALT— Lat. 30° 27' N. Long. 50° 24' E. Elev.
A well in the Behbehan province, Similes south-south-west of Behbehan
town on the road to Zaidan. The well is attached to the imdmzadeh of
’Abdullah and has masonry sides. Water can be drawn here by a wheel,
or fetched up by descending steps to the water’s edge some 15 feet below the
surface of the ground. The water is good, and as on an average 4
cdravdns, say 100 animals, water here daily, and make no impression on
the supply, it can be presumed that at least 300 animals could be watered
daily without difficulty.— {Gabriel, 1905.)
CHAH DARAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A desolate valley of Pars running from north to south as far as Qatrfl.
It is about 5 miles broad, and is crossed on the road from Niriz to Sald-
abad between Kand ’Arabi and Bishneh. In the centre of the valley a
track from Lingeh to Yazd crosses the Niriz-Saldabad road at right angles.
—{Dobbs, 1903. )
CHAH DEL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Pars west of Deh Kuhneh. It
contains 80 houses inhabited by a tribe who claim connection with the
Bani Tamim of Central Arabia. They speak Arabic as well as Persian, and
were, until lately, Sunnis. Dates and cereals are grown, and a few donkeys
are owned in the village.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH GUM GUM—
A half-way halting-place in Kirmanshah on the road between the Ivan
and Asmanabad valleys. There is a well which contains a spring ; round
it are numerous heaps of stones extending for some distance and said
to be the remains of an ancient city. The ground is rocky in the vicinity
and well wooded with oak trees. The place is about 24 miles north of the
Darreh Darigh Pass.—-(Faw^aw.)
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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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