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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎138v] (281/982)

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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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DIR—DIZ
DIRAKHTAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village in tlie Faridan division of the Isfahan province, 3 miles
from Nimagird (q.v.). — {Schindler.)
DIRA KUH or DARAKAN— Lat. 28°51'N. Long. 54° 13'E. Elev. 4,570'.
A village in Fars, 24 miles west by north of Darab on the road thence to
Fasa. Ouseley found it enclosed by a mud wall, 12 feet high, with a small
tower at each corner, and, in the face next the road, one entrance by a door
so low that a person on horseback could not enter. It is now (1884), a small
and somewhat dilapidated village of 100 houses. The inhabitants num
ber 300, and own 8 span of oxen, 50 donkeys and 400 sheep. They sow
about 1,500 mans of wheat and barley annually and pay mdlidt of 1,500
krdns. Preece does not mention the fortifications.— {Ouseley — Preece,
1884.)
DlRAKWAND—
A tribe of the Bala Girieh group of the Pish Kuh section in Luristan ;
it is a migrating tribe, occupying 5,000 houses. Among them about
4,000 carry guns, but the place they inhabit being in the midst of hills
and unsuitable for keeping horses, they possess no cavalry.—(Fwsw/
Sharif, 1889.)
DlZ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined village, on the right bank of the Zindeh Rud, 3 miles
south-east of Yarzineh.— {Preece, 1892.)
DIZ ’AB-I-, vide AB-I-DIZ—
DIZAK—
A village in the Zardeh Kuh, in which there are numerous encamp
ments of nomad Bakhtiari. The Karand and Zindeh Rud rivers flow
through it.— {Stack.)
DIZFUL (District)—
One of the two districts into which Northern ’Arabistan {vide this
Gazetteer) is divided : the other being Shushtar. The boundary between
the two is a line passing between Pavindeh and Kahunak in the north
through a point east of Kut ’Abd-ush-Shah in the south. It may also be
noted that while the district stretches westward of the Karkheh to the
Turkish frontier, the influence of the Persian Government never extends
beyond that stream and not always so far.
Produce and Trade .—The agricultural and mineral products are the
same as in the Shushtar district, with the exception that indigo is grown in
place of opium, and may be said to be the principal industry. A certain
| number of fruits, such as pomegranates, limes, sweet limes, oranges,
apricots and some grapes, are also produced in addition to the melons
of the other district ; while bitumen and pitch are not found. The indigo,
' which appears to be exclusively cultivated for use in Persia and not
exported to foreign countries, is of three qualities, varying in price from
30 to 60 krdns (Rs. 7-8 to Rs. 15) per Tabriz man, of 6f lbs. The crop is
sown in the middle of March and cut 120 days later when about 5 feet high,

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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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