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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [101v] (207/988)
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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721 MAZ—MEH
MAZRA’EII BALA— Lat. 31° 36' N.; Long. 54° 31' E .; Elev.
One of the live towns forming the town of ]\Iehriz {q-v -).— (lugharz?
1890.)
MAZE A' EH KUNAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Yazd district, lying in the sandy plain to the smith of the
Palangan range.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
MAZRA ; EH PAIN— Lat. 31° 36' N.; Long. 54° 31' E.; Elev.
One of the five towns forming the town of Mehrlz (q.v.). — (Vaughan,
1890.)
MAZRA'EH SAPID (1)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village in the district of Yazd, some 4 miles south of Turum
Pusht.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
MAZRA'EH SAPID (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, some 8| miles south of Turum Pusht,
It contains 70 houses. There is a copious supply of water from a qandt
stream and good grazing.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
MAZRA’EH-I-SHAH 'ALl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, situated in the Deh Bala valley .
— (Vaughan, 1890.)
MAZRA'EH-I-SHUR— Lat. 31° 29' N.; Long. 54° 42' E. ; Elev.
A hamlet in Kirman, about 30 miles south-east of Yazd, and | mile to the
east of the post road from that place to Kirman. Close to it are the ham
lets of Husainabad and Chadari, and all three are said to be inhabited by
f Shams’—a mountain race.— (Wood, 1899.)
MEDISEH— vide MADRASEH.
MEHARLU (Village)—Lat. 29° 22' N.; Long. 52° 48' E.; Elev.
A village in Pars, 24 miles south-east of Shiraz, on the road to Fasa. The
village is built on either side of a dry water-course and is in a tumble down
condition. It contains about 80 miles of mud and stone, and a population
of about 350. Wheat and barley are grown here. On the north-west of
the village, the cultivation extends for 5 miles. What is not required for
home consumption is sent to Shiraz. The villagers own about 1,000 don
keys, 40 oxen for ploughing, and 2,000 sheep, but no mules. Just north
west of the town is a stream of clear, sweet water, which farther up in the
hills is used to drive a mill. The village gives its name to the lake, Daria-i-
Meharlu (q.v) on the shores of which it lies, and to the hills above it Kuh-i-
Meharlu (q.v.). These latter are bold limestone cliffs standing some 4,000 feet
above the Shiraz plain.— (Abbott — Ouseley—-Jones — Freece, 1884.)
MEHIAR—
Practically deserted, 1911, in consequence of the disturbed state of the:
locality.— (Moir, 1911.)
MEHIAR—Let. 32° 16' N ; Long. 51° 51' E.; Elev.
A village n the Isfahan province 25 miles south of Lfahrn on Ihe Shn a
road, and 19 miles in north of Qumisheh. It is an intgulaj j oh go n in shaP
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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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