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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎350v] (705/982)

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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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690
MUH-MUH
The following are the villages, estates, or plantations on the left bank of
the Shatt-al-’Arab river from the Turkish frontier to the mouth of the
river Karun:—
Miles
by
river
from
Tur
kish
front
ier
cairn.
Names.
Inhabitants.
Remarks.
1
Hadd ..
Bait Kana’an (Muhaisin)
Arabs.
60 mud houses and reed huts.
6
Khumaiseh
A1 Bu Farhan (Muhaisin)
Arabs.
45 reed huts.
7
Nahr Yusuf
Ditto
55 mud houses and reed huts.
8
Sa’idan..
Ditto
35 reed and mat houses.
84
Jad d ..
Ditto
30 reed and mat houses.
84
Sh khureh
Ditto
35 mud houses and reed huts.
84
Makri ..
Ditto
70 mud houses and huts.
84
Nazleh
Ditto
25 mud houses and huts.
9
Kut-i-Khaiyain ..
Mixed sections—Muhaisin
Arabs.
40 mud and reed houses sur
rounded by a dilapidated wall.
•.
Fail, on
See Fail yeh.
10
Darband
Baghlanlyeh and HasawT-
yeh Arabs (Muhaisin).
15 mud houses. Here is a large
creek from the Shatt-al-’Arab,
which formerly connected with
the Kar n.
11
’Arbidleh
Hasawiyeh (Muhaisin)
Arabs.
6 mud houses.
11
Sana’ ..
Bait Kan’an (Muhaisin)
15 mud houses on canal of same
Ma’muri
Arabs.
name.
Ditto
20 mud houses. Ocean stream
ers anchor opposite for business
at Muhammareh.
• •
Huz-ul-Malakeh . .
Hilalat (Muhaisin) Arabs
6 mud houses on the Barh neh
canal.
• •
Jabirieh
The angle between the Shatt-al-
’Arab (loft bank) and K r n
(right bank) in which are situ
ated the Persian Customs house
the Brit sh Consulate, an ‘ the
premises of Messrs. Lynch
Brothers.
Agriculture and Livestock. —The principal crop is that of dates, but some
cereals are also grown and there is an ordinary proportion of livestock. In
the villages nearly every family has one or two cows, and a small proportion
own mares. The Shaikh of Muhammakeh keeps at least 60 brood marcs and
a few stalions.
A a ministration. This district appears to be sometimes called the district
of Shatt-al- Arab, but locally this name is not used .—( 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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