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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [409r] (822/982)
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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(And others in a valley in the centre of the island). In all there are thus
300 houses on Shaikh Shu’aib, and the total population may be about
1,500 souls. The people are Sunnis. Some cultivation is carried on,
but the principal occupations are fishing and pearl-diving. There are 5
(?) pearl-boats which visit the banks on the Arabian side in summer, also
1 sambuq which makes trading voyages to the Shibkuh Ports and Bahrain
besides about 85 smaller boats, Baqarehs and Shu’ais, used for fishing
and for pearling on the local banks at Shat war islet. Shaikh Shu’aib is
subject to the Hamadi Shaikh whose authority is represented by a resident
Naib: the Shaikh who is reputed better off than most of his compeers,
is said to derive most of his substance from the possession of the island.
There are about 40 modern rifles in the possession of the inhabitants.—
(Lorimer, 1906.)
SHAIKH ZUHRAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place, 119 miles from Dizful, on the road thence to Muhammareh
by Shush.— (Rivadeneyra.)
SHAITUR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place, 10 miles west of Deh ’All, on the road from Kuh Banan
to Yazd, on the south-east of that province. It is the easternmost village of
the Bafq sub-district of Ya.zd—(Stack—Abbott.)
SHAKARI, BAGH.
A village on the Bushire peninsula (q. 0 .).
8H1KHAT ’ABARTEH—
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island, consisting of 30 huts and
inhabited by Mutur (Muhaisin).—(Pemow Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAKHAT ABGL-KHUDHAIR—
. A v . illa g e on the east shore of ’ Abbadan island. It contains 13 huts and is
inhabited by Mutur (Muhaisin ).—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAKHAT BAIT HANUN—
A village on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It contains 30 mud houses
and huts and is inhabited by Dris.—(Pemon (hilf Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAKHAT BAIT SALIM—
. A X iIla S e on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It consists of 12 huts
inhabited by Mutur (Muhaisin). —(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAKHAT GHANIM—
A canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the left bank
of the river Jarrahi, with which it is connected. This canal irrigates 25 fad-
dans of land on which Ka’b of the Al Bu Ghubaish division grow wheat and
barley .—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAKHAT HAJI ’ARRlK—
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island. It consists of 20 mud
houses inhabited by Mutur (Muhaisin) —(
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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