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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [101r] (206/982)
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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CHA-CHA
191
CHIH KHlNl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Dashtistan about 2 miles west of Chah ’Axabi.
It consists of 30 houses of Borazjunis, and wheat and barley are grown, but
there are only about 200 date-trees : there are 100 donkeys.— (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH KUGA— '•
A small, deep well in Ears containing good water, passed about 11 miles
from Bishneh on the road to Khairabad.— (Dobbs, April 1903.)
CHAH KUNDAR— Lat. 28° 35' N. Long. 55° 14' E. Elev.
A small fort near the eastern boundary of Ears, 33 miles north-north
east of Furg. It contains two or three houses and a pond fed by a run
ning stream.— (Vaughan, 1887.)
CHAH KURAN— N ^
A halting-place in Kirman, on the road from Birjand to Kir man,
seven stages from the latter place, with three or four wells of brackish
water, some of which are better than others. There are no inhabitants
here.— (Stewart.)
CHAH KUTAH— Lat. 29° 3' N. Long. 51° 11' E. Elev.
A considerable village, and a small district in the province^ Ears. The
village is the head-quarters of ^an Arab Shaikh, who rules it, with several
adjoining villages, in subordination to the Governor of the Gulf Ports.
Chah Kutah is situated about 15 miles south by west of Borazjun and 18
miles east by north of Bushire town, on the road from Bushire to Shiraz
via Jireh. It consists of about 150 houses of Damuj Arabs, who are said
to be connected with the Dawasir of Bahrain and were until recently all
Sunnis, but are now many of them Shi’ahs ; there are also a few Persians
of a tribe called Zanganeh. Wheat, barley, melons and dates are grown, and
the people own 300 donkeys and some camels. There are no shops, but a
little trade is carried on in private houses. There are two small mud and
stone forts, and about 70 of the fighting men of the place are said to be
mounted. The other villages in the jurisdiction of the Chah Kutah
Shaikh are Cbaghadak, Duvaireh, Husainaki, Kunarabad, Muhammad
Ahmadi, Tal Ashki and Abu Tavil.—(St. John—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH MIL— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,559'.
A village on the eastern borders of Ears, about 4 farsakhs (14 miles) north
west of Kuh-i-Dukaru.— (Vaughan, 1887.)
CHAH MILA—
The name of the high ground intervening between the Chila and As-
manabad valleys in Kirmanshah, and also the name of a well from which
a stream flows in the spring time. This well is situated at the junction of
the road from Mandali via Tangi-i-Garma-i-Zareh and the Tang Isma’ilii
td Karind, with that from Gilan into Asmanabad. It is a wooded spot
with good grazing, and is a mile or so south of the Timanjik and Amrula
passes over the Kaluja range. A well, 4 miles south-east of it at the head
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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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