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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎414v] (833/982)

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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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SHA—SHA
818
The villages situated on or near the left bank of the Shatait are :—
Distance in miles
by river from
Shushtar.
Name.
Inhabitants.
5
Buraki
Shir ’Ali and Che-
bar Lang Bakh-
tiaris, and Shush-
taris.
7
Yissareh
Shushtarls
8
Kaleh Saiyid
Ditto
10
Kunar Pir
Ditto
12
Lungur or Lan-
Ditto
garieh.
14
Mahliaveh
Ditto
18
Chehar Dingeh ..
No inhabitants ..
20
Bait Hasan-ul-
’Anafijeh of the
Haji or ’Arab
Dailam section.
Hasan Khn n or
Ka Hasan Khan.
24
Abu ’Amud
Dailam (’Anafijeh)
Arabs.
40
Band-i-Qir
’Anafijeh Arabs ..
Remarks.
One mile inland. Cultivators of
wheat and barley : 15 donkeys ;
30 buffaloes and 60 cattle owned;
15 mud huts.
Cultivators of wheat and barley ;
fishermen and donkeys, cattle and
buffalo owners; 20 reed huts,
vacated in hot weather; 20 don
keys, 30 buffaloes, 50 cattle.
The nearest point to Shilshtar ever
reached by steamer : 40 mud huts,
1 mile inland, with 20 rifles.
Forty mud huts, 1 mile inland, with
20 rifles and 30 buffaloes.
Forty mud huts, 2 miles inland, with
8 rifles. It is 4 miles west of
Hasmava on the Gargar.
Thirty-five mud huts, 2 miles inland
with 30 rifles and 40 buffaloes. It
is about 4 miles west of right bank
of the Gargar.
Has been used as a landing place for
cargo for Shushtar. By land 12
miles from Shashtar and 8 from
Shalaili.
Forty mud and grass huts and
tents with 40 rifles, 30 mounted
men; cultivators of barley and
wheat: owners of 10 buffaloes,
100 cattle, 1,500 sheep, and 30
mules. There is a mosque and
garden here; as well as a ferry
across the river. Regarded as
half-way by river between Shushtar
and Band-i-Qlr.
Sixty mud and grass huts. There are
said to be 300 fighting-men at call
in the neighbourhood of this vil
lage, 30 rifles, 30 mounted men.
They own 150 cattle besides donkeys
and sheep. Cultivators to a small
extent of wheat and barley.
Vide this Gazetteer—Band-i-Qir.

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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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