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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [267v] (539/982)
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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KHA-KHI
The village of Khaviz is situated high up on the east slope of Khurmuj,
perfectly concealed among the lower underfeatures. A fine stream of fresh
water flows past it, and most extensive date plantations are situated in the
hollows of the hills around it. There is excellent grazing in the ravines
about the streams and there are fair supplies. Some 50 cattle and 300 sheep.
Bhusa, barley, dates and firewood. About 120 donkeys available for
transport purposes. The small village of Kashsbl, about one mile distant, is
really an outlying part of Khaviz. There are about 200 houses in the two
villages. These are the only inhabited places in the valley. The gardens of
Maidan on the opposite side also belong to Kbaaiz, but no one lives there.
KHAZ'ALI—
A canal branching off from the right bank of the Jarrahi river. The depen
dent population consists of Rani Turnf settled here by the present Shaikh
of Muhammareh, who also constructed the canal. Rice is grown as well
as barley and wheat. The annual rice crop is estimated at 1,000
Hashim mans. The canal is ten yards wide at the mouth, and hows at first
north or north-west. This canal flows in summer as well as winter.—
(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHAZlNEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Southern ’Arabistan a little below the head of the Khulti canal.
The name means “the sluice.” It marks the place where the Jarrabi
river becomes the Fallahieh canal.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHELLOKH (?)—
A tribe of Ears, under the authority of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of that province. No
mention is made of their number or locality. — (Felly.)
KHERA FARAYEH*— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 1 Of miles in a south-west direction from Ram Hormuz to Ma’-
shur.— (Burton, 1903.)
KHIARI— Lat. 28° 53' N. Long. 51° 13' E. Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 5 miles west of Ahram on the
west side of the inland Tangistan valley. It contains 30 houses and grows
crops ->f wheat, barley and dates.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHlARZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, 9 miles west of Deh Kuhneh.
It contains 30 honses inhabited by original Persians, who grow cereals
and water-melons, and own 5 horses, 30 cattle, 40 donkeys, and 400 sheep
and goats. There is a tower here.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHIEl, vide KARtN River.
KHIKU Pass — Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass to north of Khaviz, Ears, 2 hours’slowgoing from the latter to it.
The ascent to it is by a narrow and dangerous mule or goat track.— (Durand.)
KHINAMAN— Lat. 30° 27' N. Long. 56° 24' E. Elev. 5,800'.
A village and the head-quarters of a small district of the same name, about
48 miles west of Kirman city. Although now a comparatively insignificant
* Is this the same as Khar Faraih ?
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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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