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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [453r] (910/982)
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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TAL—TAN
895
inhabited by fishermen, cultivators and manufacturers of gach. — [Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TALL-I-SIAH— Lat, 29° N. Long. 57° 6 E. Elev.
A small village in Dashtistan, Ears, 12 miles from Bushire, on the road to
Firuzabad. It is protecte d by a small fortalice. Good water is procurable
here from wells. No fuel is obtainable, except dung. Slaughter cattle are
procurable in small quantities, and also animals for baggage. It contains
a hundred houses and pays 200 tumdns revenue.— [Jones — Felly.)
TALL-I-SURKH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars, in the buluk of KamFiruz (g'.v.).— [Durand.)
TALL-I-SURNEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shulistan district of Fars, situated in the Chal-i-Mfireh
valley, on the banks of the Sar-Ab-i-Siah stream. The village contains 20
huts and the Tul, which is an artificial circular mound 50 feet high and
50 yards in diameter at the base. On the top are ruins of what is
variously described as an old mosque and an old castle. The river,
now only found on the west side, was formerly also led round the east side,
forming a moat. The place is said formerly to have been the residence
of the chief of the Rustami branch of the Mamassani tribe, to which
tribe it still belongs.— [Wells^—McGowan ) 1895 — Hopkins, 1903.)
TALL QATIL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Zira district of Fars, 8 miles north-east of Daurfid-
gah.— [Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TALL SARKUH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Zira district of Fars, 1 mile north-west of Tall Qatil.
—[Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TAMANDAR—
A range of mountains, crossed by the road between Isfahan and
Burujird, some 20 miles from the ioimer.—{Schindler.)
TAMBIH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan between Gulgir and Shakar Ab on the road from
Malamir to Shushtar. There is a good spring here, and supplies are pro
curable. After Tambih there is no fresh water for miles, and all supplies
must be carried.— [Baring.)
TAMl (BANl), vide BANl TAMIM (2).
TAMURADI—
A clan of the Lur tribe of Ilidts, inhabiting the tract near Durrahan in
Behbehan, and approximating, with the Zamuns and Bakars, 1,400 fami
lies. They have with them some 700 mules, but no special herds.— [Ross.)
TANGAB— Lat. 28° 55' N. Long. 52° 35' E. Elev.
A defile in Fars, which occurs 3 miles on the road from Firuzabad
to Kazarun. It is a rocky, and rather fine, defile, leading down the 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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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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