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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎476r] (956/982)

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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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ZAR—ZAR
941
Xbid, and was at one time a place of considerable importance. Though
now much decayed, it extends over about miles, and is surrounded by
large gardens. It contains about 1,000 houses, including a few shops, and
a population of some 4,000. The surrounding plain is a fertile one, and
all supplies are obtainable ; also good water and camei-gra/mg.
The district contains about 25 villages, and is famous for its cultiva
tion of opium and manufacture of felts. A considerable number of nomads,
about 1,000 families, wander in the neighbourhood, who mostly apoear to
be Baluchis {vide Kirman list of nomad tribes.) Its mdlidt in 1902 was
18,000 tumdns. —{Stack—Preece, 1393 ; Wyatt, 1399 ; Skyes, 1902.)
ZARDAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A river of south-east Khuzistan, flowing near Hormuz into the ATa
which is crossed near Rustamabad on the road to Ahwaz. {Wells.)
ZARDAKl BUZURG— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Angali district of Ears, on the left bank of Rud Hilleh
stream, 1 mile below Mahmad Shahl. It contains 30 houses of Lurs and
Bani Tamim Arabs intermingled. Dates are grown here as well as wheat
and barley, and the villagers own 40 donkeys and a few horses.—( Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
ZARDAKl KUCHAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Angali district of Ears, north-west of and adjoining Zardaki
Buzurg. The population and cultivation is the same as that of the
adjoining village, but there are only 20 houses. The village owns some 35
donkeys.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
ZARDAN— Lat. 31° 28' N. Long. 54° 17' E. Elev.
A village and plain in Ears, in which there is a fresh water lake. It is
one of the villages of the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Yazd, situated south
by west of that pass, and south of the Shir Kuh range.—(CAesnew -Mac
Gregor.)
ZARDAV AR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A beautiful glen, two stages north of Dizful in Khuzistan, on the road
to Khurramabad, by a pass of the same name.-— {Rawlinson.)
ZARDEH KUH, or SARD KUH —Lat. Long. Elev. 16,000'.
A range in the Bakhtiari country, long, narrow and exceedingly rugged
and abrupt. It runs south-east from near the source of the Karun of which
the head waters flow south-eastwards between this range and the Kuh-i-
Rang. Some of its peaks reach 16,000 feet. It is covered with snow on the
north side till late in the year. The Zindeh Rud also rises in the Zardeh
Kuh.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
ZARDEH SOWAR— Lat. * Long. Elev. 5,020'.
AKalhur Kurd village of 15 houses standing above the road from Harun-
abad to Ki rmanshah, via Zailan, 7 miles from the former : above it is the
wooded spur of the Zardeh Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. , conspicuous among the surrounding bare

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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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