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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [9r] (22/988)
The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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barley and water-melons. The villagers own / horses, 40 donkeys and 400
sheep j some wool is exported from here to Bushire tut Shif. this vi lage
has a small tower .—fPersian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
LAIRGUN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Pars, about 20 miles from Shiraz, on the road to
Isfahan rid Abadeh.— (MacGregor.)
LAKPEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A long narrow wall of sand in Bushire harbour,t ying only I to 0 feet
below water. {Vide this Gazetteer—BushireTown.) —(foreign Department
Gazetteer, 1905.)
LAKHT-I-SARDARI (?) —
A halting-place in Laristan, 21 miles north of Bandai Abbas, on the
caravan road to \azd. (MacGregor, from native information.)
LAKl —
A tribe of the Hindian district ((pv.).
LALABAN
Stands on the Mahi Dasht plain at the foot of the north-west slope of
the Kurkur range; a path from Tang-i-Shuvan crosses to it ; the Alii pass
is on the mountain above at the distance of one mile. The^ plain round is
well-cultivated and grassy; water from springs and a kdriz stream iiom
the mountain, where also fuel is abundant. The village contains 30 houses,
the inhabitants are Kurds and own large flocks of sheep and goats.
( Burton.)
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LALEH-GUN—
A ruined building 12 miles north of Mianzadeh Isma’il, and just west of
the road. (Grahame, 1908.)
LALEHZAR River—
A river of Persia, the lower reaches of which are crossed on the road
between Bafq and Yazd; it is salt and loses itself in the Lut. (8y ces.)
LA LI (1)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A sub-division of the Bakhtiari mountains in Luristan. It is a wintei
quarter of the Bidarwand Bakhtiari.
There is a halting-place here about 36 miles north-east of Shushtai on
the road to Isfahan. (Layard — Mackenzie.)
LALI (2)—Lat.
A plain in Khuzisfcan,
Long. Elev.
on the banks of the Karun river. (Layard.)
2 y 2
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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).
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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).
Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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