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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [422v] (849/982)
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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834
SHI—SHI
Name.
Positioa
Houses
_ U and
inhabitants.
Remarks.
Machahll ..
1J miles east by
south of Jizzeh.
50 houses of Sunnis..
There are date gardens and
cultivation, and some of the
people are sailors and
pearl-divers. To this vil-
lage belong 2 sambuqs
which are used for the
carrying trade in winter
; ;
and for pearl-fishing on
the Bahrain side in sum
mer, also 4 or 5 small
boats used for pearling on
the Shaikh Shu’aib banks.
ChlrQ
45 miles south
east of Shiyu and
4 or 5 miles north-
• • • •
See article Chiru.
east of the nearest
part of Hindarabi
Island.
•
The village has a large fort
with a round tower which
is 250 feet above the
sea. The people own
10 trading vessels, 6 re-
QdlSt • •
9 miles east by north
of Chiru.
200 houses of Shafi’i
Sunnis.
.
gular pearl-boats, and over
20 smaller craft used both
• -
for fishing and for pearling.
They also possess some
dates and cultivation, and
a few of them are mer
chants. The Persian Im
perial Customs have a post.
Gurzeh
)
14 miles east by
north of Chiru;
the island of Qais
is 12 miles to the
south ward.j
60 houses of Sunnis.
The inhabitants have 4 trad
ing vessels, 3 regular pearl-
boats which cross the
Gulf, and about 20 small
fishing baqdrehs : some of
which are also used for
pearling.
Tavuneh . .
4 miles west-south
95 houses, chiefly of
The village stands on a
west of Charakd
Bushris, a section of
the A1 ’All who are
at feud with the
rest of the tribe;
small point; there are a
few date-trees, also a castle
on a rocky hillock at
the extreme point which
!•
1 * ; '
they are Sunnis.
is some 60 feet high.
The mountains rise at
less than a mile behind
the village. The people
are Sunnis and are mostly
poor. They have some
dates and cutivation but
chiefly follow sea-faring
occupations. To this
place belong a couple of
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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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