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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [162v] (329/982)
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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FID-FIR
tified enclosufe here, described as somewhat solid, but with no guns. Water
is procured from wells.-.-(tlones.)
FIDlGH, KGH-I— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain in Laristan, about 40 miles west of Anveh.—(Faw^/jan,]890.)
FIDALAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small range of hills in Khuzistan, passed on the road from Shughtar to
Dizful. They consist of sandstone and conglomerate, and rise a few hundred
feet above the plain.— (Schindler.)
FIJAIJAT—
A sub-division of the Ban! Turuf (q. v. ).
FlDISHKDlEH— Lat. 28°40' N. Long. 53 0 45' E. Elev.
A large village in south-east Ears, 30 miles from Jehrum, on the road thence
to Fasa. The village has extensive fruit-gardens and excellent cultivation.
Very good supplies are obtainable here, and the water-supply is abundant.
The surrounding country is infested by gangs of robbers. Caravans usually
hire escorts of 15 to 20 men armed with long guns when passing through
this district.— (Stctherd, 1893.)
FILAT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A district occupied by the tribe of Mai Ahmadi Haft Lang Bakhtiari.
It is passed through on the road from Qumisheh to Khuzistan. This is
evidently the same as Falat and Falard.— (Layard.)
FILDAnI KtH— Lat. Long. Elev. 2,470'.
Some low hills in Laristan, 29 miles south-east of Lar, to the south of
which the road from that town to Bandar ’Abbas passes.— (Butcher,
1888.)
FlN —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 200 houses, some 35 miles north-west of Bandar’Abbas.
Revenue, 5,000 tumdns. Livestock : 100 donkeys, 6 mules, 10 camels,
400 cattle, 1,000 sheep and goats. Wheat is largely cultivated.—
(Sher Jang, 1902.)
FlRtJZABAD (1)—Lat. 28 0 5rN. Long. 52° 33'E. Elev.
A town in Fars, 72 miles south of Shiraz, and 119 miles from Bushire
by road. It is the eighth stage on the Bushire-Jehrum road.
Toim and inhabitants .—Though prosperous, Firuzabad is now less im
portant than it was in the middle ages, and (1893) has a population of 2,000,
or if outlying villages are included, of 3,000. The town is surrounded by
a mud wall and ditch, and there are a few plantations of date trees
round it. It contains some 600 houses ; on the outskirts of the town is a
large walled house, the residence of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of the Qashqai tribe,
who is the ex-officio governor of Firuzabad and Farrashband. The town
though walled, is incapable of offering any resistance to an army, and is
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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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