'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [330v] (665/982)
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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MAL-MAL
It is supposed to have even a greater antiquity than the Sassanian Epoch.
The village of Malamir contains 150 houses with a population of some
600 souls. 32,500 lbs. of grain are sown annually as well as 1,300 lbs of
rice. The taxes amount to 2,000 Irdns per annum, 5 Irdns per head of
families. The Samsam-us-Saltaneh has lately opened a good qandt ; under
the usual circumstances, supplies are available for 100 men and 500 animals
for one day. The water has to be brought from springs from l\ to 2 miles
' distant. The water of the stream is brackish but not badly so. It is said
to contain leeches. The
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
supplies approximately 6,000 mans
of barley per annum. The retail selling price per Shahi man_oi 13 lbs in
October and November 1906 was barley—1 krdn, bhusd 20 krdns.
Temperature, 5th August, in a room of the serai and out of doors, 88°—100°.
The popultion of the Malamir valley is nomadic. Lur camps are
pitched there throughout the winter, the tribes beginning to arrive in
the middle of September. Except for the village of Malamir itself, such
l few built habitations as there are, are vacated in summer.
Two roads lead from Malamir to Kaleh-i-Tul, the first via Tang-i-Nashalll
(16 miles), the second via Halalgan, 2 or 3 miles longer and more to the
west. The first is not always considered safe, in which case caravans follow
the second.— (Layard — Burton, Vm—Report of a Journey through the
Bakhtidri Country to Shushtar — Arbuthnot, 1905— Lorimer, 1906.)
MALANGtJ— Lat. 28° V N. ; Long. 51° 36' E. ; Elev.
A village in the DashtI district of Ears, 9 miles east by north of Bardeh
Khun Man on the slopes of the Kuh-i-Darang. It contains 15 houses
of Hajian, Ruuseh and Jatut.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
MALA SHAUNA— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,575'.
A pass in Luristan, on the Khurramabad-Deh Bala road, 9| miles from
the former. It is stony, bare, and scantily wooded ; it can be easily turned,
and the low hill of Mian Gardaneh in its vicinity crowned without difficulty.
— (Burton, 1897.)
MALGARAM (?)— Lat. 27° 50' 30"; Long. 51° 38'; Elev.
An island in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, off the coast of Ears, just off Ras Malgaram
from which it is 1| miles distant south-west. It is a small, woody island.
There is a gut between it and the point, with 10 fathoms in it, and there
are 1| fathoms at low water on the bank without it. In this gut the Kangan
! boats are laid up, when dismasted, for the season.— (Brucks.)
MAL-I-CHAH (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the road from Bhshire to Ahwaz along the coast, 137 miles
distant from and passed 15 miles after leaving the 6th stage ; the chief here
refused permission to camp and to provide supplies.— (Bailward, 1905.)
MAL-I-CHAH (2)—Lat. Long. Elev. 11,110'.
A peak forming part of the Sabz Kuh range in the Bakhtiarl country.
There is a perennial spring near the summit,’and the place is used as a sum
mer camp by the Iliats.— [Sawyer, 1890.) N
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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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