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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [132v] (269/982)
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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254
DEH—DEH
Lorimer gives the follwing statistics of population and stock in 1906:
Houses. Souls. Sheep & goats. Cattle. Horses.
70 300 300 150 10
The retail selling price per Shall man (13 lbs.) in October and November
1906 was—
Barley ... .. 1-50 brans
Wheat .. .. 2 - 0 „
There is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in the village. Water is good and is obtained
from a spring \ mile above the village on the road to Shatil. The best
camping-ground is immediately below the village, or still lower in the vicinity
of the old fort.
The population of the several neighbouring villages, which are from ^
to 1 mile apart, is about 1,200. Supplies of all kinds are available for 100
men and 500 animals for one day.
52,000 lbs. of grain are sown yearly. Taxes 1,000 brans per annum.
Heads of families pay 5 brans, cows brans, sheep | bran. Carpets and
gilims are woven here.
Temperature both in and out of doors in August 1903—84° to 99°. In
April—65°, barometer 24'60.
All the villages in this neighbourhood are wholly or partially vacated
during the summer months. Even Deh Diz is left almost empty.
{Wells — Baring — Macbenzie — Ramsden, 1902— Burton. 1903— Report of a
Journey through the Babhtiari Country to Shushtar — Arbuthnot, 1905—
Lorimer, 1906.)
DEH GABRtj— Elev. 6,400'.
A village in Kirman, 12 miles from the town of that name, on the road to
Zarand. The village, which consists of 10 houses can furnish a few supplies,
good water and camel-grazing.— [Wyatt, September 1899.)
DEH GIRDtT— Lat. 31 o 10'N. Long. 52° 17'E. Elev. .8,000' (Frazer.)
A village in Ears, on the road between Shiraz and Yazdikhast.
DEH HASAN ’ALl KHAN —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, north-west of Shiraz and not far from Fehlian. It is
situated in a valley which produces oak, fine walnut, and other fruit trees,
especially large standard apricots.— [Chesney.)
DEH HUSAIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 231 miles north-west of the city of that name, on
the road to Yazd via Zarand.— [Sybes, 1894.)
DEH-I-AIH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined fort in Ears, said to have formed the citadel of the chief of Darab-
gird. It consists of an extensive piece of ground enclosed within a ditch
extremely wide and deep, and a bank or rampart of earth proportionally high
in the middle—a huge, rugged, insolated rock, rising like a mountain. In the
sides of the rock are several caves, some natural and others probably
artificial. In another part of the enclosure are several large and rude
stones, forming a cluster irregularly like the Druidical stones of Britain.—
{Ouseley.)
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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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