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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [375v] (755/982)
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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740
QEH-QIS
8,395 feet. On it rises one of the head-waters of the Zindeh Rtid. It
lies between the Kuh-i-Dalam on the one side and the Kuh-i-Kulang
and Kuh-i-AlavI on the other side. It forms part of the Tihran-Karhan
districts.— [Schindler.)
QINDAQl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district, a short distance west of Kimeh. It
contains 25 houses of Ahl-i-Ramuz and of Zanganeh who are reckoned to
be CheharLang Bakhtlari .—[
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
QIR—Lat. 28 0 27'N. Long. 53°E. Elev.
A village in Ears, situated in the plain of the same name, about half-way
between Shiraz and Lar.
It is a large village, a good deal in ruins, with three or four poor shops
and a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. It is watered by a small stream from the hills and an
ancient qandt.
The plain of Qir is about 25 miles long and lies nearly east and west.
It is said to contain thirty villages. Most of it is watered from the Kara
Aghach. It usually has a pleasant appearance, owing to the turf with which
it is clothed and its numerous palm groves. When the water is in sufficient
quantity, it is very fertile and the corn stands over 5 feet high. Besides
this the plain produces barley, r?ce, tobacco, sesame seed, opium, and ex
cellent dates and fruits. Near the village of Qir it juts out into the lake
in the form of a promontory.
In the summer the Qir plain is intensely warm, and is then forsaken by
the tribes, though its other inhabitants remain in the village, suffering,
however, greatly from the swarms of flies which infest the country, and
from sore eyes.
Above the village Qir stands an earthen fort, which in the reign of Mir
Muhammad Shah was held by 200 men against the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of Piruzabad,
who is said to have besieged it with 10,000 horse and 2 guns.
It was afterwards dismantled, the garrison having made terms. The ad
ministration of this district was entrusted in 1882 to Mirza Ahmad Khan,
Mu’in-ul-Mulk, son-in-law and nephew of the Sahib-i-Divan.—(KtwnetV—
Abbott — Stack.)
QlR AB or KlL AB or KTr Ah —Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain about 25 miles to the north of Dizful, in which are said to be numer
ous burying-grounds, dating from the Arab conquest. A favourite winter
camping-ground for the Lurs. It is watered by a small tributary of the
Diz, which takes its name from the plain.—(/ScAmd/cr.)
QlR (BAND-I-), vide BAND-I-QlR.
QISBEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Khuzistan, about 7 miles from Muhammareh, on the
road thence to Dizful by Shush. See also article, Muhammareh District.
— [Kivadeneyra.)
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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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