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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎468v] (941/982)

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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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926
UMM—UMM
UMM TAMAIR, vide KlRtTN River.
UMM-UL-JARIDIEH (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island. It consists of 10 huts
inhabited by descendants of Bahrain refugees.— (Foreign Department
Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UL-JARIDIEH (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan Island joining Umm-ul-Jaridleh
( 1 ). It consists of 10 mud houses and huts inhabited by Nassar.— (Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UL-JARIDIEH (3)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island \ a mile from Umm-ul-
Jaridieh ( 1 ). It consists of 30 mud houses and huts, and is inhabited by
Baluchis and mixed Arabs.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UL-JISR (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A thin strip of low sandy shore, If miles north-west, half north, from
Umm Khaileh island, coast of Ears. It lies in a north-west by northerly
direction to Ras Yabrin or Jabrin. There is a channel for boats between
it and Umm Khaileh. Inside Umm-ul-Jisr is an extensive swamp, intersect
ed by deep Ihurs, the mainland being about 5 miles distant; this swamp
continues to the northward, nearly to Lavar.— (Constable—Stiff e — Persian
Gulf Pilot.)
UMM-UL-KARAM or JARM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small low island, less than a mile in extent near the coast of the Dashti
district on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Ears. It lies a few miles only from Daiyir
and gives it name to the innermost deep-water channel inside of the
Ras-ul-Mutaf.— (Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot—Foreign Depart*
ment Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UL-W AW IEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A tract of land in Southern ’Arabistan, on the river Karun, between
Saba and Mansieh.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UN-NAKHL— Lat. Long. Elev.
An island in the river Karun, immediately above the Ahwaz rapids.—
(Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-UN-NUKHAILEH, vide MUKHAILEH.
UMM-US-SAKHAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A large canal in the Fallahieh District of Southern ’Arabistan, on the
right bank of the Jarrahi river, with which it is connected. It irrigates
country cultivated by Hazbeh (Ka’b) Arabs who grow rice and dates.
At 3 miles from the riverbank there is a settlement of 500 families.—
(Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
UMM-US-SAKHR-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan near Fallahieh, where the huts of the Hazbeh
section of the Ka’b tribe are chiefly located.—(ifoss.)

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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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