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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [113r] (230/982)
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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and fruit trees. The people are Kalhur Kurds and number 25 houses.
Abundant water and forage available ; some supplies in winter and more
in summer. There are large numbers of sheep and goats grazed on the
Zabarl plain in summer ; no fuel adjacent, but it is procurable from the
mountains within 3 miles. Ample camp room. Roads to Kirmanshah
wd Mahidasht and Zailan diverge over the plain near the village.— (Burton.)
CHULAK (PAlN)— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,020'.
Stands on the south-west edge of the Zabari plain, on the road from
Harunabad to Kirmanshah via Zailan, Ten miles from the former. The
village consists of 15 houses, and is augmented in summer by 20 huts of
boughs. The people are Kalhur Kurds. Abundant water from a large
Icariz stream, and a fair area of cultivation ; good grazing ] no fuel; the
people own a number of sheep and goats and some cattle. A few willow
trees.— (Burton.)
CHULCHEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A stage on the Isfahan-Shushtar road, 76 miles from the former town,
between Qehfarukh and Bazuft.— (Mackenzie.)
CHUL (?) or CHAL (?) I-ARZAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village between Shalamzar and Ardal, traversed by the Isfahan-
Shushtar road. It lies on the Shushtar side of the Gardaneh-i-Zirreh.
( Baring — Schindler .)
CHUL-I-GHUL.— Lat. Long. Elev.
A wild, mountainous region in Luristan-i-Kuchak, between Khurram-
abad and Jaidar.— (DeBode.)
CHULV-I-HUL, vide KASHGAN RUD.
CHUR AM—
A sub-division of the Pusht-i-Kuh section of the Kuhgalu tribe, (q. v.)
who live round Behbehan in Khuzistan.
CHUSTANEH— Lat. Long. Elev. 30'.
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in the Shamil District, 15| miles from Bandar ’Abbas
on the road to Lar, and 3 miles from the coast. It has a cistern full of good
water.— (Butcher, April 1888—
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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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