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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎111v] (227/982)

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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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212
CHI—CHI
mounted and armed with rifles. Twenty/ofldddws are cultivated and there
are gardens, 50 cattle and 100 sheep and goats. (Pefsian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
CHILHASH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A torrent rising from the Kuh-i-Rang Mountain and watering the village
of Pir Sar Sahid {vide this Gazetteer).
CHIL GAZI ’AJAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, 7 miles west of Deh
Kuhneh. It contains 80 houses inhabited by Persians, who grow dates,
wheat and barley, and own 100 donkeys.—( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHIL GAZl ’ARAB.— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, south-west of Deh Kuhneh.
It contains 80 houses inhabited by a tribe who claim to be Jammaleh
from Central Arabia, and who speak Arahic as well as Persian. The
villagers grow wheat and barley, and own some 20 horses and 100 donkeys.
—{ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHILNU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting place, 21 miles from Uganuri (?) on the Shushtar Isfahap
road, via Bazuft and Qehfarukh.— {Mackenzie.)
CHIMISHK (CHEMESK)— Lat. 38° 19'N. Valley, 0 465'.
Long. 48° 29' (Gorge, 5,200'.
A valley, stream and gorge in Khuzistan between Nasrabad and Shah-
imShah, on the Dizfui-Khurramabad road. The ruins of a post-house
stand on a hill in this valley, where pasture is excellent but timber scarce.
The rivers which water this valley are the Rigan and Kapkan, which meet,
in the Chimishk gorge and form the Taj in river, which eventually falls in-?
to the Kashgan.— {Schindler.)
Bell, 19th April 1884, writes :—-
‘‘ Erom Kuh-i-Ghazal the road from Dizful to Khurramabad by easy
gradients (a few of a) skirt the Chimishk stream flowing west ; rapid, 30'
wide, 2' 6" deep ; stony bottom ; its valley, 200 yards wide, is shut in by
steep cliffs of gypsum and red clay, 200 feet high : stunted trees grow in
its bed (4,640 feet).
“ The valley opens out and the hills to the south lower in height; good
pasture ; barometer 25 , 25" (4,840 feet). There is room for a large camp
in this now broad valley.
‘ ‘ The Chimishk stream forces its way through a narrow gorge in the
Kuh-i-Ghazal. The track here crosses it, and, ascending by an easy gra
dient, passes over the range ; the ford is a difficult one. A road also goes,
through the Chimishk gorge, but, being at the time blocked by the flocks
of the Iliats it was not taken. Barometer at top of pass 24‘9" (5,280.
feet.)
“ The difficult, swampy and stony descent into the Chimishk valley
^an be readily improved.

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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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