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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [194v] (393/982)
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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S78
HAW-HAZ
The water of Hawizeh town is now bad as well as scanty, but it remaina-
the seat of the hereditary Vali, who governs it and its immediate neighbour
hood under the Shaikh of Muhammareb. Hawizeh in the 14th century A.D.
was one of the most flourishing places in ’Arabistan, and the centre oi a dis
trict which produced corn, cotton and sugarcane. The Sabian community
already existed at that time.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
HAZAR CHAM— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,750'.
A small spring in the Bakhtiari country and a halting-place for caraxa a,
116 miles from Dizful on the road to Kaleh Bazuft, and 14 miles from the
latter. No supplies, but good grazing.— (McSwiney, 1891.)
HAZAR DARREH—
The name given to the Bakhtiari range in Khuzistan to the east of
Behbehan.— (Chesney.)
HAZAR JARIB— Lat. 33° 6' N. Long. 53°5 'E. Elev.
A village in the Earidan division of the Isfahan province. It is govern
ment property and inhabited about by 100 Armenian families, who pay yearly
taxes to the amount of 410 tumdns-Ps 1,640. It lies 3 miles west of Zar-
neh and 108| miles from Isfahan on the road to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
HAZAR YAK (TANG-I-)— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,950'.
A narrow, deep valley, in the Bakhtiari country, running north and south
between spurs of the Garreh mountain for about 5 miles. Its southern
exit debouches into the northern end of the Hilisat valley, with the river
of which name the stream that runs down it merges.— (Morton, 1905 —
Arbuthnot, 1905.)
HAZBEH—
A section of the Ka’b tribe (q.v.).
HAZIR MIL—
Some springs of water 93 miles south-south-east of the site of Kurdish
camps in a grass-grown valley, which runs down to the plain of Tumatuma on
the Deh Bala-Dizful road. Some of the ground is cultivated, and the grazing
on the adjacent spurs and mountains is very abundant. There is no fuel
near, and the mountains on the southern aspect are quite bare of trees.
The road from the Mama pass to Tumatuma runs through Hazir Mil.—
(Burton.)
HAZSHDANA (valley or plain)—
A plain in Luristan south-west of Deh Bala, and between the outer or
southern range of the Pusht-i-Kuh and the middle range. It is about 4 miles
in breadth from north-east to south-west, and of a length not exactly
known but considerably over 8 miles. Its elevation is from 1,500 to 1,800
feet : to the south-east it adjoins the Bahuravan plain, from which it is
separated by some broken ground and a low spur of hills. The Imamzad-
eh-Khaseh-’AH is situated on its southern border, and its blue dome is visible
at a great distance. The plain forms a winter camping-ground of the
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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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