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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [343r] (690/982)
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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’Abdullah, to the lands between Mirbaeheh and the Muwailheh
stream. It is possible also that they are connected with the Zarnini stream
of the Ramuz district. , . ^
The place consists of rather over 100 houses, of which 2 or 3 belong to
Lurs and the remainder to Bani Lam Arabs of the Kinaneh section. The
inhabitants possess about 70 rifles.
The irrigated lands are estimated at 90 Hhxsh or ploughs, the unirrigated
at 80 Khish. The annual yield of the same in grain, which here includes
rice, is placed at 5,000 Ramuz mam. Date palms number about 6,000,
on the average about 15 years old, and are the property of the villagers.
Transport animals and other livestock are 40 horses, a large number of
donkeys, 400 cattle and 3,000 sheep and goats.
The village is the property of the I’tizad-us-Sultan, one of the Bakhtiari
ruling family. Irrigated land is assessed at £ of the gross produce, and
unirrigated at 25 krans per ~khxsh per annum.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.)
MIRA’I—
A sub-division of the Bani Saleh tribe {q.v.).
mIrzA darreh—
A small stream in the Pusht-i-Kuh of Luristan, crossed at 83 miles south-
south-east of Deh Bala, on the road to Dizful. It flows north to join the
Mama river and contains a stream of good water.— {Burton, September 1897.)
MISHGAN, vide KHAN-I-KIRGAN.
MlSHVAND— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plateau in Luristan between Khurramabad and Dizful, through which
flows the Lailum river.— [Schindler.)
MlANKHURREH—L at. 28° ST' N. ; Long. 51° 24' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 8 miles south-west of Khurmflj
town, on the west side of the Khurmuj valley. It contains 40 houses of
Sadat and Shaikhanis.— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
MIZAR’ANWl—
A small canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the
right bank of the Jarrahi river, with which it is connected. It irrigates
20 fadddns of country producing wheat and barley. The inhabitants are
Saiyids.— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
MlZDAJ—
A green and fertile plain with twelve villages, the largest of which is Farsan.
It is situated north-west of Rar between the Chehar Mahal and the Kallar
Kuh, and is connected with the former by the Gardan-i-’AH Kuh or
Bardan-i-Kuh. The plain is about 12 miles long and by 4 broad,
and exceedingly green and fertile. The river flows in a channel too deep
cut for irrigation, but the mountains all round send forth abundant springs
4 Q 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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