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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [121v] (247/982)
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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DAR—DAR
DARN-I-CHANGUR—
A pass in Kirman, 28 miles west of Bahramabad, on the road to Shiraz.—
(Preece, 1892.)
DARREH (AB-I-), vide LABAHRI (SHtJR-I-).
DARREH DEN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Haiat Baud district of Ears, 12 miles from Rig, contain
ing 30 houses inhabited by Lurs. Wheat and barley are grown, and the
villagers own 10 horses and 30 donkeys.—(Pemem Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
DARREH BAGH— Lat. 28° 26' N. Long. 56° 17' E. Elev. 2,860'.
A hamlet in Kirman, about 90 miles south-south-west of Baft, and 3
miles south of Sultanabad, on the road to Furg. It forms a convenient
stage on the route between Bandar Abbas and Saidabad, being 163 miles
distant by road from the former, and about 100 miles from the latter.
It consists of a few hovels with a date-grove and a small amount of cotton
cultivation.
Supplies are procurable in moderation, and the water from wells is good
and plentiful.— (Gill, 1880.)
DARREH BlD (willow-valley)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Qahiz plateau in the Tihran-Karvan district, 241 m il e s
from Yarpusht, a couple of miles to the left of the road from Isfahan to
Burujird.— (Schindler.)
DARREH-I-DARAZ— Lat. Long. _ Elev -
Name of a village or pass in Luristan, between the Abistaneh valley and
the Deh-i-Bir plain.— (Schindler .)
D ARREH-I-H AN ASHK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A defile in Ears on the Shiraz-Yazd road, 6 miles from Gushti. There
is a good camping-ground with a stream of nice water.—(MacGregor.)
DARREH I-KHAZlNEH—L at. Long. Elev.
A plain in Khuzistan, between Cham-i-Gaz and Pul-i-Tang on the Khur-
ramabad-Dizful road via Y&hmhn—(Schindler.)
darreh-i-mIrza—
Is crossed by the road from Deh Bala to Dizful, 2 miles north-east of the
Mema pass. It here contains a fair stream of clear water, flowing over a
pebbly bed between deep cut and precipitous banks. The country round is
broken and raviny and contains much grass. The stream rises north of
the Shakarau mountain and_flows north-west, effecting a junction with
the Mema river 2 miles above the Mema pass. Near the junction are Kur
dish camps during the spring and summer months.— (B.)
DARREH-I-MUD— Elev. 3,560'.
A hamlet in Kirman, 84-1 miles from Saidabad, on the road to Bandar
’Abbas via Gakum. It consists of 7 houses, perched in an almost inaccessible
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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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