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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎307r] (618/982)

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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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LIN—LIN
603
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabit
ants.
Remarks.
Khlrln (Birkeh)
8 miles north-west
of Lingeh town
and 1 mile east of
Birkeh Jangal,
near the southern
border of the
Lingeh salt marsh.
Nil
A reservoir and date garden.
Khur Sur
Near the coast 5
miles north-east
of Lingeh town.
Nil
Ditto.
Rung..
On the Coast 4 miles
north-east of Lin
geh town.
Nil
See article Kung.
Lash T an (Kaleh)
5 miles north by
west of Lingeh
town.
Nil
There is no village here, not
withstanding the name.
Lavar
5 miles west-north
west of Lingeh
town.
Nil
A track of cultivated
ground.
Lingeh town
About 96 miles
west south-west of
Bandar Abbas, 88
miles north-north
west of Shurjeh
and a little over
300 miles south
east of Bushire.
Nil
See article Lingeh town.
Magarat
Near the coast be
tween ShiyJ s and
Milu.
Nil
A garden only.
Mulla (Birkeh)..
7 miles north-west
of Lingeh town
and 1 mile east of
Birkeh Kharan.
Nil
Ditto.
' - !
Mila ..
On the coast 9 miles
west by south of
Lingeh town, be
tween Shiy-xs and
Bust.neh.
Half a dozen huts,
mostly of Sudan
Arabs, Sunnis.
The people are poor, own
ing only a few small fishing-
boats and some date-trees :
they fish and dive for
pearls in the vicinity of
their village. The date-
groves mostly belong to
people of - Bustaneh and
Shinas who come to live
here in summer; in the
same season there are
also some immigrants from
Lingeh town.
Mihrakan

22 miles north-west
of Lingeh town,
between the nor
thern edge of
the Muhrakun salt
mfursh and the
foot of the great
maritime range.
70 houses of Kurds
There is a good and abun
dant water supply from
wells, 60 feet deep.
4 G 2

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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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