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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎220v] (445/982)

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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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JARtT—L at. 3l°34'N. Long. 49^37' B. Elev. l^GO'.
A small village in the lower Bakhtiari country, 46 miles west by south of
Deh Diz. It is a permanant settlement, not entirely nomad. It is the 3rd
stage from Nasirieh (65 miles on the Bakhtiari caravan route)'. It is
situated on a plateau near a range of gypsum hills, which runs from near
Shushtar in a south-easterly direction for 50 to 60 miles. The
Asmari range lies beyond some low ridges to the north. The village
consists of about 50 mud and reed huts with a population of some 250
souls. A small stream of brackish water, which animals will drink, flows
• past the village and along it is some wheat and barley cultivation. Very
limited supplies: are available and the supply of water for drinking
purposes, which is obtained from a spring £ of a mile to the north of the
village, is scanty. There is no fuel close by, but there are many*
bushes’ on the hills near the road. The temperature in a large thatched
hut on. the 2nd August 1903 ranged from 92° to 111^— 1902j
Burton, 1903; Arbuthnot, 1905 ; Lofimer, 1906.)
JARZEH or JIRZEIT— Lat. (tower) 26° 44' 15" ; Long. 53° 58' 10'.
A small village on the coast of Lar, opposite the island of Qais. It has
a tower and date-grove, and is situated in a bay, which affords shelter
from the Shimal close in. There are 20 fathoms of water within
a mile of the beach of J a,rzvh..-^-(Constable — Stiffs — Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot.)
Note.—This is'probably the same as Gurgth (q.v.).
JASAN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A large village in Luristan, 8 miles south, 20 miles west of Badrai. It is
celebrated for its date-groves. The soil here is favourable for the growth
of orange and lemon trees, and the land produces grain of various- kinds,
cotton and hemp,, but the vicinity is so exposed to the depredations of
Arabs that its inhabitants engage little in cultivation,— (Layard.)
JASHAK—Lat, Long. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 11 miles south-south-east of KakT,
at the northern end of the Kuh-i-Darang. It contains 30 houses.—*
[Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
JASIMl—
A small canal in the Ballahieh district of Southern ’ Arabistan, on the right
bank of the river Jarrahi, with which it connects. It irrigates 50 fadddns
of country cultivated by mixed (Ka’b) Arabs, who grow wheat and
barley.— [Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
JA’flDEH—
A section of the Na’b tribe {q. v.),
JAU-I-DlR—L at. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Kbuzistan , 67 miles south of Burujird, on the road to
Dizffll.— [Mackenzie.)

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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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