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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎361v] (727/982)

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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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NIS-NUK
NISHANAU—
An upland valley of the Pish Kuh of Luristan, lying to the south of the
road from Khurramabad to Pusht-i-Kuh, immediately west of the Paria
pass. It contains a number of camps of the Amarai Lurs, and is watered
by several streams which drain to the north. The grazing is very good,
wood is scarce ; some supplies and ample camp room.— (B.)
NISHEH— Lat. 29° 11' N. Long. 53° 47' E. Elev.
A small, walled village in Ears, situated in a broad, open valley on the
road from Fasa to Niriz, and 26 miles north-west of the former town.—
(Stotherd, 1893.)
NISHUNEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A Lur camping-ground lying to the south of the Khurramabad-Deh
Bala road, in the vicinity of the Pariu pass. This and other camps lie in a
well-watered upland valley.— {Burton, 1897.)
NISHUNEH Mountain—Lat. Long. Elev.
A rocky mountain lying to the south-east of the Alishtar plain of
• Luristan. Its south-west spur is rounded by the Khurramabad road
at Kaka Riza. It contains a quantity of oak scrub and some trees, the
remains of former forests : the lower slopes are wooded and covered with
long grass.— {B.)
NIZARAT—
A tribe of the Hindian district [q. v.).
NOBFLEUR(?)— Lat. 26° 11' 30"; Long 54° 30' 40". Vide NABIU FARttR.
NUDAN— Lat. 29° 48' N. Long. 51° 45'E. ; Elev. 3,540'.
A village in Fars in the Kazarun district, 12f miles by road north-east
of Shahpur. It contains 20 to 30 houses, built of stone and mortar, and
a fort ; there is also another fort, perched up on the hill above and com
manding the village. Water is obtainable from a brackish spring below
the village, and from a fresh one in the hills behind the fort. The inhabi
tants are Lurs. The village possess a garden and little cultivation. The
camping ground is good and some supplies are available. It is a pictur
esque little spot. {De Bode—Wells — Vaughan, 1891.)
NUDUSHAN— Lat. 32° 2' ; Long. 53° 34'; Elev. 6,300'.
A town on the road between Yazd and Isfahan 138 miles from the latter
place. It is a small, walled town, with good buildings and gardens, but a good
deal of it is in ruins. The newest buildings are all outside the walls. The
hills immediately over the town to the east are very curious and look like
mud volcanoes. The streams of mud have passed round the bases of the
limestone hills, leaving the peaks cropping out. The town, which contains
400 houses (1,720 people) and is divided into six mahallehs orparishes,
belongs to peasant proprietors, who pay 1,010 tumdns taxes (200 tumdns
for grazing sheep and 810 for the six dungs). It is watered from qandts,
200 jaribs in 24 hours ; 700 kharwdrs (4,55,000 lbs.) of wheat and barley
are sown yearly. In the town is a mill, and there are 1,200 sheep and 100
oxen for the plough— {Preeee, 1892.)

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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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