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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎113v] (231/982)

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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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DAB-DAG
D
DABBA— IjAT. Long. Elev.
A chain of low. grassy islands in the Haffar channel of the Shatt-al- Arab,
which continue for miles, leave a channel some 1,200 yards between
them and the north bank. The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilots call this channel the Dabba
Reach.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. PiloL)
DlDABAD— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,900k
A small plateau above the Na’l-Shikan Pass, near Khurramabad,
Luristan. Barometer 24° 3", thermometer 40°, 20th April im.—{Schindler—
Bell)
DADAGAI—
A clan of the Qashali tribe of Ilidts, who inhabit the country from Sub-
i-Shun near Kazarun to Kuma and Maurak near Khusru Shirin, in Ears.
They number about 800 families. They have no herds or mares for mule
breeding, but breed in camp.—(.Ross.)
DADINJAN—Lat. Long Elev.
A village in Ears, near Mik Kuh (?). Close to this rises a salt stream,
flowing down between the Siah Sureh and Bankatar hills to Jireh.
{Durand.)
DADINJUN— Lat. Long.
A village contained in the Deh Bid {q.v.) district; it consists of 40 houses
with a population of 180. Joint owners in 1907—Mandi Had! Khan and
Mandi Hasain Khan, in equal proportions. The yearly yield of wheat and
barley is 80,000 mans.' — {Wilson, 1907.)
DAD-UL-MIZAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 18 miles east by south of RIz. {Butcher, 1888.)
DADUNGEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the right bank of the Marun river, in the Hindian valley,
passed on the road from Behbehan to Gargan. It contains 900 inhabitants-—
Behbehanis—whose occupation is in the cultivation of dates, rice and lin»
seed. Resources: 300 cows; 200 donkeys; 2,000 sheep.— (Lonwer.)
DAFEH—
A village in Kirman, 87 miles from the towr of the name, to the south
of the road to Yazd. It contains about 115 houses, has 3 qanats of sweet
water, and can furnish supplies in fair quantities.— {Wood, October 1899.)
DAGHAGHLEH—
An ’Arab tribe living on the Karkheh in Khuzistan. It is a nomad tribe,
living in tents, and consists of about 200 adult males, tributary to Havizeh.
This tribe, and the others who are tributary to the Mulla of Hawizeh, pay
him tribute only when he is strong, when he is weak they decline to do so.
It is a division of the ’Ikrish {q. v. ). — {Ross.)

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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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