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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎130r] (264/982)

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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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DEHlNEH-I-NlBlZ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass on the road from E.irman to Shiraz, close to Isiiiz, Ears. [Lovett.)
DEH ’AEABI-Lat. 30° 17' N. Long. 50° 17' E. Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Ears, 6 miles north-e ast of Bandar
Dilam. it contains 30 houses inhabited by Afshars. Crops are wheat and
barley .—[Pevsian Gulf Gdzette&f, 1908.)
DEH ARMANI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Luristan, 18 miles from Khurramabad, on the road to
Isfahan, from which it is 130 miles distant.
A few supplies are procurable, as is water from springs. The village
is inhabited by Armenians.—(/owes.)
DEH BALA (1)—Lat. 33° 43' N. Long. 46° 27' E. Elev, 4,965'.
A valley in the Pusht-i-Kuh district of Luristan, 96 miles south-west of
Kirmanshah town, on the road to Kut-ul-’Amareh. It is the summer resi
dence of the Vali of Pusht-i-Ivuh, whose house, a fine brick building, built
with corner bastions and loop-holed v.-alls, is the only permanent residence
in the valley. The Lurs, retainers of the chief, camp in booths of branches
scattered about the plain ; some 2,500 of these booths were observed. Near
the house is a garden, 500 yards long by 250 broad, enclosed with a masonry
wall 4 feet thick and 15 feet high, with corner flanking towers. It is well
laid out with tanks and fountains down the centre, and rows of poplar and
willow trees. Vineyards, groves of peaches, apricots, and vegetables grow on
either side with some fine walnut trees. At the north side stands the Vali’s
principal residence, a square, fortified building, built of brick ana stone, of
50 yards side. The outer walls are 30 feet high, 3 feet thick at the base, and
have a small, circular tow T er at each corner. In the centre is a courtyard
with a tank. Several suites of rooms open on to this court. Along the
wall, on the flat roof, is a double tier of loopholes. The arrangement of
these is peculiar ; they are simply slits with no splay at all, the upper tier
cut at right angles to the wall, and meant for direct fire , the lower cut
alternately slanting in different directions, and meant for oblique fire.
The interior of the house is well furnished, and the water-supply, from a
large spring at the foot of the hill, particularly good. There is a stable inside
for 20 horses. The door of the house is in the south wall and opens into
the garden, with a second gateway in the outer wall, defended overhead
with a banquette and tier of loopholes. The house and garden had been
recently built when visited, and its situation as a stronghold for a feudal
chief, in this secluded valley, is w T ell chosen, the Daluva Pass is the only
means of crossing the mountains to the north, and that is steep and difficult
and might be held by a few resolute men against any number. The route to
wards the Mesopotamia plain is also capable of easy deience. To the south
east, towards the Kabir Kuh, lies an extremely wild impassable country, full
of deep, wooded ravines and crags, while to the north-west towards Zarneh,
are a succession of rugged, parallel ridges difficult to cross. The position
segms at least secure against anything the Persian Government would care
112 1. B. 21 '

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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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