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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [374v] (753/982)
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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738
QAS-QAT
QASIMABAD (1)—Lat. Lokg. Elev.
A village in the Tihran-Karvan district, 9 miles from Varpusht and about
3 miles to the left of the Isfahan-Burujird road.— (Schindler.)
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Q ASIMABAD (2)—Lat. 30 o 25'N. Long. 56°8'E. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 6J miles from Bahramabad, on the roadto Kirman,
and about a mile to the north of the track.— (Wood, 1899.)
QASIMABAD (3)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 40 miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Yazd, lying about 2 miles north of the track.
Jt consists of 2 or 3 houses and has qandt of slightly brackish water.
—(Wood, 1899.)
QASIMABAD (4)—Lat. 29° 55' N. Long. 53°48'E. Elev.
A village of Far about 9 miles west of Khvansar in a bay of the Kauhan
Khh.—( Preece, 1892.)
QASIMABAD (5)—
A hamlet in Kirman, 58 miles south-west of Baft, on the direct road to
Furg. There are no suppl es, but good water from qandts is procurable.
— (Brazier-Creagh, 1894, frjm native information.)
Q ASIM-IBN-’ ALl— Lat. Long Elev. 2,500'.
A small village, in the Lower Bakhtlarl country, about 1 mile east of
Bagh-i-Malik, in the midst of rice cultivation.— (Morton^ 1905.)
QASR JADlD— vide KHAN-I-KIRGAN.
QASR YA’QUB— vide KHAN-I-KIRGAN.
QASS AR-BIN-SIS W AN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small, rocky shoal, a mile long in the middle of the Khur Musa channel,
about 3 miles south-south-west of Qabr-un-Nakhuda; it has deep water
on each side. From this point, a long, very narrow bank extends south
wards, dividing Khur Musa into two parts.— (Constable — Stiffe—Persian
Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
QATRANl—
A canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the left bank
of the Jarrahi river, with which it is connected. The population are Ka’b
of the Bait Hilayil and Moni sections, mostly occupying mat huts. They
have 90 fighting men, all with rifles and mounted. On the average there
are 90 fdddans of cultivation including gardens, but the canal can water up
to 150.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
QATRU— Lat. 29 o 10 / N. Long. 54 0 47'E. Elev. 4,250'.
A village of some 40 houses in Lar, 39 miles (Abbott says 21|) east of
t Niriz, on the road to Kirman. The Qatru valley with its single village
is the picture of desolation. It is very extensive and runs in a southerly
direction towards Tarim. The hills on its eastern side are lofty, one espe
cially so, viz., Tang Chal.
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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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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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