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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [164v] (333/982)
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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318
FUR—FUR
The inhabitants own some 3,000 sheep and 6,000 goats. Excellent
grazing for these is found in the surrounding hills which contain quantities
of deer, hares, partridges and other game. Water is plentiful from wells,
^anats, and streams, and from the Furg river which rises to the west of
the town.
Two miles to the south-east is an ancient fort, now in ruins, called Kaleh
Bahman. Its walls are of solid masonry, in parts 15 feet thick, and it con
tains several wells, now dry. West of the town is another fort. These
ruins and the remains of ancient aqueducts and villages testify to Furg’s
previous prosperity, while the fertility of the soil gives promise of what it
might once more become under a better Government.-—— Vaughan,
1888 .)
FURK, see FURG.
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:487v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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