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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [210r] (424/982)
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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ISF—ISM
409
mined castle of the Gabri. It is situated just at the foot of a range of hills
which screen the view of Isfahan .—(Ouseley Moner.)
ISFANDtAR— Lat. 29° 50' N. Long. 50° 35' E. Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Ears, administratively dependent on Ban
dar Dllam. It is situated 27 miles south-east of Bandar Dilam, and contain
40 houses inhabited by mixed Lurs and Arabs. Wheat and barley are grown.
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Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
ISFARJAN, vide ISFADRAN.
ISFINABlD— Lvr. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears in the Abrquh district, between Shiraz and Yazd, on
the road via Bavanat, from which it is distant 32 miles m a northmor -
east direction.— [MacGregor.)
IS-HAQABlD— Lat. Long. EleV -
A village in the Anar district [g.v.) of Kirman.
ISHFARJAN OR ISHFARKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, about 25 miles north of Farrashband, Fars, on the road to
Kazarun from thence.— {Abbott.)
ISHKAFT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village on the left bank of the Kur river, 7| miles north of Pul-i-
"Ojan.— {Grahame, 1908.)
ISHKANAN OR ASHKANAN— Lat. Long. ^ Elev.
A village in Laristan, 65 miles from Lax, on the road to Bushire. lt pos
sesses several large irrigation wells, some cultivation, and goo grazing,
little to the south is a grove of date palms, and a jungle of tamarisk and
kundr bushes, which provide fuel in plenty. {Butcher, Marc •)
ISlN or ’ISlN—
A place a few miles from Bandar Abbas on the road towards Furg.
Water-supply from large wells wdiich are fresh. An extensive date p an-
tation and small garden here ; also three large bathing tanks, and the rums
of a bath and largo buildings near the garden. Very ho *
beginning of September. Thermometer lOo m shade at 2 p.m. {A du
Rahim.)
ISMA’IlAbAD (1)—Lat. 29° 1' N Long. 52° W E. Elev.
A village in Fars, about 33 miles from Shiraz, towards Firuzabad K has
a fortalice and a few gardens with a small stream. A few supplies are
procurable here.— {Jones.)
LSMA’ILAbAD (2)—Lat. 29° 50' N. Long. 56° 45' E. Elev.
. A village near Nagar (q.v.) in the Kirman district.
ISMA’ILABAD (3)—
A patch of cultivation in Kirman, 28| miles from the town of that name,,
on the road to Yazd.
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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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