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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎459r] (922/982)

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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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TAN—TAN
907
Behbehan-Shiraz road which crosses the tang 7 miles east of Basht,
and another equally narrow gorge 2 miles south-west of the road, through
these gorges runs a river straggling over a wide shingle bed m 4 swift streams.
One measures 40 yards and is two feet deep, the other three being 30 yards
wide and one foot deep. In hood the river is 300 yards broad and 5 fee t
dee-p.—{Hopkins, 1903.)
TANGr-I-SIAH {2)—vide SIAH (TANG-I-).
TANG-I-SIH DAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass between Lavar and Kalimeh in Ears. {St. John.)
TANGISTlN District—
This district of the Persian coast of Ears is somewhat irregular in shape.
Its maximum length from north to south is about 40 miles, and the northern
half has a breadth inland of about 20 miles ; but the southern half is merely
a narrow strip upon the coast.
Limits .—The northern boundary is a line running east and west, a few
miles south of the important village of Chah Kutah, so as to divide Tangis-
tan from Dashtistan. The western boundary is the Mashileh of Bushire,
and, further south, the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The perimeter of the dis
trict is completed by a line which, commencing at the north-east corner,
follows the crest of the main maritime range until it has passed several
miles beyond Ahram, and then crosses to the summit of a subsidiary
maritime range, much nearer to the sea, along which it continues southward
for about 90 miles, finally running down to the coast a little beyond the
village of Karri. . ..
Physical characteristics.-—The great maritime range where it adjoins ian-
gistan is of no great elevation, the highest point being Kuh-i-Dukhtar, 3,938
feet, a few miles to the north-east of the Tangistan capital of Ahram. A
spring of extremely hot water is said to issue from the western face of Kuh-
i-Dukhtar and to be adjoined by deposits of sulphur. An important fea
ture of the district proper is the Ahram stream, which has its exit from the
hills on the south side of Kuh-i-Dukhtar, and, leaving the town of Ahram
on its right bank, runs north-west and joins the Chah Kutah stream of the
Dashtistan district a few miles above the point where the latter empties
itself into the swamps near Bushire town. A short way below Ahram town
this stream has a channel of 100 yards, the right bank being 20 feet hign, of
a tenacious white clay, while the left bank is lower and more shelving, but
the breadth of the actual stream is ordinarily about 30 feet, and its depth 1
foot only : it is believed, however, to be liable to sudden floods after rain
in the hills. The surface of the Tangistan district would be flat and open
throughout, as it is in its northern part, were it not for the accident of a con
siderable sandstone range, which, running parallel to the sea at the distance
of a mile or two inland, divides the southern portion of the district into an
inland valley and a littoral tract. These three features, the inland valley,
the coastal range, and the maritime strip, are all prolonged southwards into
the Dashti district. The inland valley is cultivated under the hills, and a
chain of small villages depending on cultivation extends down each side of
it. The coastal range has a length of over 50 miles, and belongs as much
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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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