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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [420v] (845/982)
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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830
SHI—SHI
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
Akhtar
7 miles west by north
of Tahiri.
80 houses. The peo
ple are mostly Sun
nis but some are
Shi’ahs.
1
The people are sailors, fisher
men, pearl-divers, culti
vators of wheat and barley
and date-growers. Date
palms number 1,000;
livestock are : 100 camels,
60 donkeys, 200 cattle and
2,000 sheep and goats.
They own several sailing
vessels and half-a-dozen
fishing baqareh*. The
farm of this village 400
tumins a year.
?
Biigh-i-
Shaikh.
2 miles west by north
of Tahiri.
40 houses. The peo
ple are Shafi’i Sun
nis.
Tahirl
!
20 miles south-east of
Kang n and 25 miles
north-west of Na-
band.
....
See article Tahiri.
Barak
i
i
i
i
!
5 miles east of Tahir!.
100 stone houses and
huts. The people
are mostly Sunnis.
The people are traders, sail
ors, pearl-divers, culti
vators and date-growers,
they own several ghun-
chilis and samhuqs and a
number of small fishing
ba ;arehs. Revenue farmed
for 300 tumcins a year.
Ras-ash-
Shajar.
About 6 miles south
east of Barak.
i
A dozen houses. The
people are partly
Sunnis and partly
Shi’ahs.
The people have one or two
fishing-boats and dive .fpr
pearls on their own coast.
Since 1904, when charcoal-
burners made a distur
bance in the village and
killed two of the inhabi
tants, it has been desert
ed.
The people own 4 or 5
bums, which make trading
voyages, and 14 fishing
baqdrehs. They dive on
the pearl-banks in summer
and fish, cultivate and
grow dates at home.
Nakhl TaqT
. 3
20 miles south-west
of Tahiri and|6 miles
north of Naband.
80 huts. About £ of
the people are Shi’
ahs, the rest are Sun
nis.
’Asalia
4 miles north of Na
band with the Na
band bay between.
....
See article ’Asala.
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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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