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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [202v] (409/982)
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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394
HUS—HUZ
to Knt-ul-’Amareh. There are two houses, the lower, or dwelling-house,
being 60 yards square with a tower at each corner and loopholed walls.
It is sunk among some low spurs, and is consequently commanded at about
200 yards range. The upper house is about 40 yards side, also loopholed •
with towers at the corners, and is used as a store. The walls are of masonry
set in gypsum, 3 to 4 feet thick, the upper part crenelated with brick.
There is a large orchard of dates, figs, pomegranates, melons, and grapes,
watered by a canal from the stream. Some 30 huts, mostly of branches, for
the use of labourers repairing the houges and tending the garden, were seen.
Flies and mosquitoes very troublesome under the trees. The inhabitants
were a mixture of Arabs and Lurs. Supplies: chickens, bread, fruit, etc.,
easily procurable. Water from the river, brackish but drinkable.
Temperature in the divan-khaneh of the house, 102 degrees.—(McmwseZZ,
August 1888.)
HUSHUN— Lat. Long. Elev. 700b
A fortified village in Kirman, 22 miles from Baft, on the road to Saidabad.
It 'Stands amid orchards, and contains about 15 families. The water-
supply is good. A road branches off south-east from here to join the main
caravan track from Baft to Bandar ’Abbas. The Afshar tribe owns the
land in this district.— (Sykes, 1900.)
HUTKAN, KUH-I—
A range in Kirman and Yazd running north-west and south-east, and sep
arating the Zarand plain from the Kuh Banan district. Some thousand
feet higher than the Zarand plain is a long plateau, on the farther side of
which is a low range over the top of which can be seen the Kuh Daran.—
(Stack.)
HUVl—
A sub-section of the great MamassanI tribe of Lurs in Fars.— (Baring.)
HUYIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village reported to lie at the foot of the north slopes of Kuh-i-Huvin,
5 stages from Guniz and 6 stages from Kuristan ; it is said to be con
nected by road with Hormuz.— (Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907.)
HUWA1DI—
A division of the Salamat tribe (q.v.).
HUWAISHIM—
A sub-division of the Bani Saleh tribe (q. v.).
HLZ RIZlD—L at. Long. Elev.
4. village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island, consisting of 10 huts in
habited by Mutur (Muhaisin.)— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
HUZ-UL-MALAKEH, vide SHATT-AL-’ARAB.
HUZ |UMAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It contains 10 huts and
is inhabited by Mutur (Muhasin).-— (
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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- 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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