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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [222v] (449/982)
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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434
JlZ-JUtf
Sunni Arabs, described as Badu. There are date gardens and some culti
vation. The people also fish, dive for pearls, navigate, and a few are engag
ed in trade. They own 2 sambuqs, which go to the Bahrain pearl banks,
besides 10 smaller baqdrehs , which are used for fishing in winter, and for
pearling operations near home in aummev.—(Constable — Stiffe —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
JU AS1AB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district, about | a mile north of Ramuz town.
It contains 30 houses of Ahl-i-Ramuz and is the property of the Mian
Muntazim-ud-Dauleh. There is a shrine of Imam Riza. A*canal passes Ju
Asiab, running in the direction of Pa-i-Gachi.— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.)
JUFAR—
A village in K’rman, inhab’t-.d by Guebors, clore to the town of
Kirman.—( Khanikoff .)
JUGAM-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Laristan, 57 miles from Lar, on the road to Jehrum, from
which it is 36 miles distant. It is a large village, situated in an open country ;
water is procured from wells. There are many date-groves here, and much
tobacco is cultivated.—(Jones.)
This is probably the same place as Juium {q.v.).
JfTlUM— Lat. 28' 6' N. Long. 53" 46' E.
The head-quarters of a district subsidiary to and forming part of the
domains of the Khan of Lar : now governed by Husain ’All Khan, son of
8h ikh-us-Nizam Khan, brother of the Khan of Lar. It has abouut 50houses,
but a large area of cultivated ground is tilled by the inhabitants, and con-
sid'Table supplies are available ; water from irrigation cuts from. Kuh-i-Bazan;
fuel scarce. It is situated on the north edge of the Banain plain, Banana
being pic inly visible due south (not as on the map). To the north the steep
foothills of Kuh-i-Albard are 2 miles distant.
Roads diverge in all dir ctions across the plain, and to Banam, Jehram,
and Darab.—( Wilson am Cruickshank, 1907.)
JULAKI— Lat. 30° 47' N. Long. 50 3 3' E. Elev.
A village in the Behbehan province of Pars, 5f miles south-south-east of
Jalzan, on the road between Ramuz and Behbehan town. It contains
10 mud houses. All travellers must take a Bakhtiarl guard from here to
cross the hills to Behbehan. The guard house is one mile beyond the village.
— (Hopkins, 1903.)
JUMBARAZUN-Lat. Long. Elev.
A vill \ge in the district of Yazd, situated in the Deh Bala valley
(q. v.). — (Vaughan, 1890.)
JUNAH— Lat. 27 J 4 N. Long. 54' 22' E. Elev.
\ village ol 300 houses, 50 miles north-west and by west of Lrngeh.
Revenue 700 tmndns. Livestock are : 200 donkeys, 500 cattle, 4,000 sheep
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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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