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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [295r] (594/982)
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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KUR ZANGINEH—
A tribe of the Janiki Garmsir Bakhtiari (q.v.). — (Layard.)
KURZEH, GURZEH, or JIZZEH, see SHlBKUH Ports.
KUSEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the centre valley of the island of Shaikh Shn’aib, Persian
Gulf. It contains 10 houses. There are 3 fishing-boats.— (Constable —
Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUSHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 4 miles from Shiraz, containing a hundred houses.— (Taylor.)
KUSHEHBIAK—
A village close to Yazd on south-west side.— (Abbott.)
KUSHK (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village contained in the Deh Bid (g 1 .?;.) district; it consists of 90 houses
with a population of 400. Owner of the village, in 1907, Muhammad Lladi
Khan. The yearly yield of wheat and barley is 80,000 mans. — (Wilson,
1907.)
KUSHK (2)—Lat. 32° 38' N. Long. 51° 32' N. Elev.
A village 7| miles west of Isfahan (from the gate) on the road to Tihran-
Karvan.— (Schindler.)
KUSHK (3)— Lat. 28° 40" N. Long. 53° 50' E. Elev.
A village in south-east Ears, about 20 miles from Jehrum on the read
thence to Fasa. The village lies about 11 miles east of the road a d is
adj ,hied by the ruins of another village.— (Stotherd, 1893.)
KUSHK (4) — Lat. 29° 55' N. Long. 52° 52' E. Elev.
A village in the Marvdasht plain of Pars, on the east side of the Shiraz»
Isfahan post-road, and some 30 miles north-north-east of Shiraz. It con-s
tains 50 houses.—(//op&ms, 1903.)
KUSHK (5)—
A village in the Bastak district (q.v.).,
KUSHKAK (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A band or weir of the Band Amir river (q.v.) in the Marvdasht plain of
Pars.— (Hopkins, 1903.)
KUSHKAK (2)— Lat. 29° 43' N. Long. 53° 50' E. Elev.
A small mud fort in Pars, 43 miles north-west of Darab, on the road
thence to Abadeh (2), and near the northern shore of lake Nargis. It is
inhabited by 70 families of the Lashani tribe who live in the fort and in
tents around it, and own a few flocks of sheep and goats. There is a
good stream of water here, but supplies are very poor. A road to
Khawan ’All branches off here.— (Stotherd, 1893.)
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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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