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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎17v] (39/988)

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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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LAS—LAV
637
LASHTAGHAN— Lat. Lem-
A village ia the Bastak district (q,v).
LASIITAN (Kaleh)—Lat. Long.
A place in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
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LATIDAN-Lat. 27° 10' N.; Long. 55° 51' E.; Elev, 22'.
A hamlet in the Bastak district of Laristan, 30 miles from Bandar "Abbas,
on the road to Lar. It lies about f mile south of the track in a green,
grassy plain, and consists of about half a dozen huts. The inhabitants,
who number about 30 and are Sunnis, cultivate dates for a livelihood.
Close to the road is a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). with two wells and two cisterns full of
water, and south of this are date-groves which extend for at least 2 miles
along’the eastern bank of the Shur river, and which are surrounded by high
earth bands, forming redoubt-like enclosures.
No supplies are procurable, but camel-grazing is plentiful and fuel is
obtained from the date-trees. Drinkable water is said to be found 25 feet
below the surface.— [Butcher, April 1888 — Shakespea'r, 1905.)
LATlFl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of some 30 houses, I mile north-east of Lar and a few yards
north-east of the Bandar "Abbas-Lar road. It is surrounded by cultivation
and tamarisk groves .—f Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907.J
LAVAR ( 1 )— Lat. 28° 34 ' 58"; Long. 51° 84' E.; Elev. 865'— (Sf. John).
A village in the Dashti district of Ears 12 miles south of Khurmuj town.
It contains a fort, about 10 mat huts scattered round the fort, «i water
mill and a garden of fruit-trees producing limes, pomegranates and dates.
The fort is merely a stone wall, 12 feet high, enclosing a square courtyard,
and has turrets at two of the corners. Supplies are very limited. Good and
plentiful water is available, being led by open conduits from the hills on
the east. A considerable quantity of kundr bush in the valley 1^ miles
to the south, furnishes a supply of fuel. There is good grazing and a good
camping-ground, but the latter is commanded by the hills on either side
of the valley. Lavar is the 4th stage on the route from Bushire to Bandar
"Abbas. A road branches off from here to Kalimeh via the Tang-i-Sehdar
pass. The distance is 36 miles. The people are Nurzaha and Ruuseh.—
{St. John—Butcher, 1888—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
LAVAR (2)— Lat. 28° 18' N.; Long. 51° 17' E.; Elev.
A village on the coast of the Dashti district of Ears, 12 miles north of
Khur Ziarat. It contains 20 houses and a large date-grove besides
considerable cultivation, but the people are poor. There are 5 large boats.
The Imperial Persian Customs have a post here.— [Constable — Stifle —
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)

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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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1 volume (490 folios)
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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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