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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [423r] (850/982)
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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Name.
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
RiMures.
trading sanibuqs and over
25 small baqdrehs and
shu' ais ; the smaller crafts
are used for fishing and
also for pearling at Mawah
and the islands of Farur
and Shaikh Shu’aib. The
Charak
Hasineh
Mughu
.. 34 miles east of Chlrii
and 16 miles west-
north-west of Mughu.
.. 8 miles south-east
of Charak.
200 houses of Mara-
ziq, mostly Wahha
bis.
17 miles south-east of
Charak and 23 miles
west by north of
Lingeh town.
Shaikh of Charak is respon
sible for the revenue to the
Persian authorities, but
seldom succeeds in re
covering any of it from the
village. The local autho
rity is Shaikh Muhammad
bin Rahmat, the head of
the Bushri section of the
Al ’Ali.
See article Charak.
Kuh Namaki rises immedi
ately inland of the village.
Some of the people follow
agricultural pursuits and
cultivate dates, but the
majority are engaged in
navigation and trade. A
number of them are Na-
khudas commanding vessels
belonging to Lingeh and
the ports of Trucial ’Oman,
and the rest are mostly
sailors and pearl-divers.
They own 10 trading ves
sels, baghalehs, ghunchahs
and sambuqs, which ply in
the Gulfs of Persia and
’Oman and pay occasional
visits to Indian ports, pos
sessing also some 15 smaller
craft which are used for
fishing and for pearl-diving
on adjacent banks. Hasi
neh is subject to Shaikh
Ahmad bin Rashid Mar-
ziiqi, of Mughu, and the
inhabitants are on good
terms with their fellow
tribesmen of Mughu.
See article Mughu.
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.'
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