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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎421r] (846/982)

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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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Name.
Bldkhun ..
Nakhl Ha-
ehim.
Naband
(Halat).
Naband .»
Barika
Bas Ghurab
Gbiaf
Position
Houses and inha 1 d-
Remarks.
tanis.
2J miles south-east of
’Asalu and 1 mile
inland from the
north side of Na
band Bay.
16 huts, mostly of
Slii’ah immigrants
from ’Asalu.
About 2 miles east of
Naband on the
south shore of Na
band bay.
About 1| miles east
of N band on the
south shore of Na
band Bay.
On the south shore of
Naband Bay, 4 miles
south of ’Asalu and
38 (? 45) miles west-
north-west of Shiyii.
About 7 miles south
east of Naband.
About one mile south-
south-east of Bariku.
20 huts. T; e people
are Sunn's.
50 huts. The people
are mostly Shaft’i
Sunnis.
Half a dozen huts.
The people are Sha
ft’! Sunnis.
Half-a-dozen houses,
but not permanent.
Less than a mile from
Ras Ghurab.
Half-a-dozen houses.
On the shore of the bay
opposite the village is ft
small anchorage, protect
ed from the west by a
sandy point and reef. The
village is nearly hidden in
a grove of date and other
trees, and there is a little
stream of good water used
for irrigation and to turn
mills. The people grow
tobacco as well as dates
and cereals and own 10
fishing baiarch*. The
people of ’Asalu have
a favourite fishing ground
here.
The people cultjya^Q dates
and grain, a nd own 6
vessels on which they go
to the Bahrain pearl-banks,
besides 20 smaller baqdrehs
and varjls from which
they fish and dive for
pearls along their own
coast.
See article Naband.
The people have some boats
from which they fish and
dive for pearls on banks
near the village. There
is a well of good water
here.
The inhabitants, who come
from places in the Ga-
band r valley, are Sunnis.
About twenty varjl- are
kept here and there is
pearl-diving on banks near
the village.
A dozen v 'irjis are owned
here and there is diving on
adjacent pearl-banks.

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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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