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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎329v] (663/982)

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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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MAK—MAL
MAKE I— (1) — vide MUHAMMAREH (District).
MAKRl (2)— Lat. 28° 48' N. ; Long. 51° 15' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 6 miles sonth-south-west of
Abram, on the west side of the Tangistan valley. It contains 20 houses
and grows wheat, barley and dates.— {Persian Gvlf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MAKSAR (Village) — vide JARRAHl (River).
MAKSAR—
A canal branching off from the right bank of the Jarrahi river. The
dependent population consists of Ka’b of the Al Bu Na’im section. It
irrigates about 15 fadddns.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MAKSAR ’ATIQEH (Village)— wde JARRAHl (River.)
MALAGAUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of Luristan to the south of the Deh Bala-Khurramabad road,
which extends in a south-easterly direction from a point a little to the
east of Deh Bala to the Birinjan gorge, traversed by the Saimarreh river.
The south-eastern extremity of the range is termed Chamalgir.—(Rwrfon,
1897.)
MIL AGHA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in Khuzistan, on the banks of the Ab-i-A’la, north-east of Ram
Hormuz and under the hills of Mangasht. It is described as a pleasant
valley, thickly wooded with gigantic walnut trees. It is much frequented
by the Janiki Garmsir Bakhtiari.—(Layard.)
MAL AHMADl—
A tribe of Bakhtiari originally a sub-division of the Baidarwands. They
have, however, long separated from them, and now encamp perfectly distinct.
They accompanied Nadir Shah in his expedition against Kandahar, and
afterwards settled for a short period in Kandahar. They then returned
to their own country by Sist an and Kirman to Shiraz, and settled in the
district of Falard, driving out the original possessors. The country occupied
by them being within Ears, they pay tribute to the governor, but the
tribe itself being included within the division of the Bakhtiari, they also
pay the capitation tax,—the former amounts to 400 tumdns, the latter
to 300. They consist of about 1,000 families.— (Layard.)
MALlKEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 20 houses of K’ab of the Dris division, situated on the left
bank of the Bahmanshir about a mile above Shakhat HajI Is-haq on the
opposite side.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MALAMlR— Lat. 31° 51* N.; Long. 49° 58* E. ; Elev. 2,950*.
An extensive plain in the heart of the Bakhtiari country. It is a remarkable
feature in so rugged a country in that it is perfectly flat. It is oval in shape,
being about 15 miles by 8, and surrounded on all sides by mountains rising
to a normal height of 1,500 feet above the plain. Those on the west side are
low and those to the north and east lofty and falling, as a rule, precipitously

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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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