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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [346r] (696/982)
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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MUH-MUH
681
sequently added the military title of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Ara’. By him the two
hereditary Shaikhs of Fallahieh were deported and detained near Muhham-
mareh, and the k allahieh district has ever since then been under his direct
administration through local headmen. He is now recognized by the
Persian Government as ruler of all Southern ’Arabistan. The heir-
apparent to the Shaikhship of Muhammareh is Chasib, the eldest son of
Khaz’al by an Arab wife, who has already been invested by the Persian Gov.
ernment with the old title of Nasrat-ul-Mulk. Shaikh Khaz’al married in
1902 a grand-niece of the ’Ain-ud-Dauleh, the present (1905) Grand Vazir of
Persia.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
MUHAMMADABAD (1)—Lat. 30° 52' N. Long. 55° 23' E. Elev.
The name of two villages in the Anar district {q.v.) of Kirman.
MUHAMMADABAD (2)—Lat. 30° 25' N. Long. 36° 5' E. Elev.
A village in Kirm.an, 5| miles from Bahramabad, on the road to K : r-
man.— {Wood, 1899.)
MUHAMMAD ABAD (3)— Lat. 31° 46' N. Long. 54° 25 / E. Elev. 4,500'.
A village in Yazd district, 10 miles from. Yazd, on the road to Kirman,
via Bahram.abad. It is a large village of 300 houses of sun-dried bricks,*
population about 1,600, forming a long, straight street, with houses and rows*
of mulberry trees on both sides.
. This place has a good
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and post-house. Here is the junc
tion of the roads from Shiraz, Yazd and Kirman. There is plenty of good
water from 2 qanats, and a good deal of cultivation, mainly wheat and
barley. Frel and grazing scanty, 300 sheep and goats, a fair amount of
forage, 300 donkeys, 60 camels, and a few mules.— {Preece — Sykes.)
MUHAMMADABlD (4)— Lat. 29° 15' K Long. 53° 56' E Elev.
A village between Niriz and Khir, Ears, on the road from Kirman to Shiraz,
It has a grove of trees and lies a mile off the left of the road close to a pass
which diverges to Istehbanat, immediately before Khir is reached.—
{Lovett — Dobbs, 1903.)
MUHAMMAD ABAD (5)— Lat. 28° 37' N. Long. 57° 25' E. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 3 miles south by west of KhurmAj
town on the east side of the Khurm.uj valley. It contains 20 houses of
Mirzaha and Ruuseh.—(Pemcm Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MUHAMMAD AHMAD I— Lat. 29° 2' K Long. 57° 10' E. Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district ot Ears, 1 a mile south of Chah Kutah,
containing 20 houses inhabited by Damukh Arabs, who are Sunnis and
speak both Persian and Arabic. The crops comprise dates, wheat and
barley, and there are a few donkeys belonging to the villagers. The village
is under Bushire and is administered by th j Shaikh of Oha Kutah.—
{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
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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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