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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [387r] (778/982)
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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Six hundred sheep and 200 cows are procurable, besides a fair quantity
of other supplies; 200 donkeys can be hired at 1 hrdn per day. The malldt
is 5,000 tumdns. — (Preece, 1892— Wood, 1899— Newcomen, 1905— Gibbon,
1908.)
ROBAT—
A village in Kirman, Persia, 28 miles west of Shahr-i-Babak. It is small,
and surrounded with a wall, and is the westernmost in Kirman. The
vicinity produces tobacco, which Pottinger considers the mildest and best
in the world, and which is usually sold under the name of Shiraz tobacco.—
{Pottinger.)
RUACH—
A valley, south-west of Isfahan.— (Chesney.)
RUBAIHAT—
A section of the Ka’b tribe (q. v.).
RUBARU, vide ROD ABRO.
RUBATAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, about 15 miles from Jireh towards Kazarun. Is fairly
prosperous, and belongs to a Saiyid. There is a good spring here.— (Durand.)
RUD ABRU or RUBARU— Elev. 7,400'.
A small village in the Pusht-i-Kuh district of the Bakhtiari country.
It is situated on the right bank of the Ab-i-Sabz Kuh, about 6 miles east of
Naghun.— {Morton, 1905— Arbuihnot, 1905.)
RtJDAK (1)—Lat. 29° 11' N. Long. 54° 10' E. Elev.
A village in Ears on the north of the road from Khir to Niriz, about
17 miles east of the former.'— (Wells.)
RUDAK (2)— Lat. 29° 40' N. Long. 51° 28' E. Elev.
A village in the plain of Khisht {q. v.).
RUDBAL— Lat. 28° 44'N. Long. 52° 37'E. Elev.
A small village in Ears, about 10 miles from Firuzabad on the alter
native route thence to Jehrum, which branches off southward at the village
of Tih Dasht. The village lies high up on the hill-side about 1 mile north
west of the exit to the defile on the road. At the exit are a spring and stream
of good water, and a garden belonging to the village.— {Abbott — Stotherd,
1893.)
RtjDBlR {l)—Vide BAZUFT (AB-I-).
RUDBAR (2)— Lat. 33° 23' N. Long. 49° E. Elev. 2,750'.
A village of Luristan containing about 80 houses, on the right bank
of the Karkheh river (here also called the Saimarreh or Ab-i-Shirvan,
about | mile below the ford by which the Khurramabad-Deh Bala road
crosses the river. Forage and fuel are abundant, some supplies are obtain
able from the village, and ample camp room in the vicinity. Rawlinson
5 D 2
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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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