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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [133v] (271/982)
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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256
DEH—DEH
with wheat and barley, and supplies of all kinds are available in good
quantity. Water is obtained from wells and open ducts from the south side
of the village, polluted in its proximity, but fair from above it. The
population is estimated between 3,000 and 4,000.
DEH-I-KUZEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small hamlet of 4 or 5 huts in Kirman, about 52 miles from the town of
that name, on the road to Saldabad.— (Dobbs, 1902).
DEHlMCHEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village in Khuzistan of 5 or 6 huts, 5| miles from KahOnafc on
the road from Dizful to Shushtar. There is a cistern; and an old canal
here (water foul in May).— (Schindler.)
DEH-I-NAU (1)—Lat. 28° 52' N. Long. 52° 27' E. Elev.
A village in the plain of Eiruzabad, Ears.— (Ross.)
DEH-I-NAU (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village near Sivand, Ears.— (Taylor.)
DEH-I-NAU (3)— Lat. 27° 21'N. Long. 56° 37'E. Elev.
A village in Ears, 17| miles from Bandar ’Abbas on the road to Minab,
by Talas (1).—(Felly.)
DEH-I-NAU (4)— Lat. 29° 27' N. Long. 52° 37' E. Elev.
A village in Ears, 16 miles south of Shiraz, on the road to Firuzabad. It
is a walled village of the common Persian type, i.e., four mud walls and
four mud towers, one at each angle. The length of a side is about 100
feet.^— (Stack.)
DEH-I-NAU (5)—Lat. 30° 19' N. Long. 51° 29' E. Elev.
A village in the Shulistan district of Ears, 6| miles east of Tul-i-Surneh.
It belongs to the Mamassanis, and the chief man of the village is named
Kahaggi Mamassani. The villagers own plenty of sheep and goats, but
have not much cultivation. They have a winter village in the hills to
the north. There is plenty of fuel on the hills around.— (Hopkins, 1903.)
DEH-I-NAU (6)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Mugui Bakhtiari country, on the track from Masir to
Kaleh Huma, and 8 miles from the former.— (Sawyer, 1890.)
DEH-I-NAU (7)— Lat. 31° 58' N. Long. 50° 49' E. Elev. 5,900'.
A village in the Bakhtiari country on the Ab-i-Sabz Kuh and about 8
miles above Du Pulan. It is a small, dirty village and the inhabitants
have a poverty-stricken appearance.— (Sawyer, 1891.)
DEH-I-NAU (8)— Lat. 29° 16'N. Long. 51° 7'E. Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears, 7 miles west of Borazjun. It.
contains 20 houses inhabited by Borazjfuiis, who cultivate wheat and bailey,
and own 35 donkeys.— (
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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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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