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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [107v] (219/988)
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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727
MIH—MIN
quantities of grain and firewood are obtainable, and water from a number
of wells, about 60 feet deep, is good and abundant.— (Vaughan, December
1887—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MIHRlZ (Mihrijird ; Mahriz) —
A large village, and baiting place 24 miles south of Yazd on the camel
route to Bandar J Abbas.— (MacGregor ; Schindler, 1910.)
MlLAGIRD— Lat. Long. ; Elev. 7,590'.
A village in the Faridan division of the Isfahan province, 7 miles from
Nimagird. It is inhabited by about 100 Armenian families who pay yearly
taxes amounting to 228 tumans = ltis. 912. The village is Government
property.— (Schindler.) .
MILAIHAN, vide KARUN (River).
MILAK— Lat. 29° 33' N. ; Long. 59° 7' E.; Elev.
A village in the MazaraT district of Ears, 1 1 miles north of Dasht-i-Kur.
It contains 20 houses, and there is cultivation of wheat and barley.— (Per
sian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MILK BIN MIFALLA—
A tract between the Diz and Karkheh rivers, containing the villages
of Jirqeh Saiyid Ahmad and 'Amaleh Karim Khan. It is irrigated by two
permanent canals from the Karkheh river.—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
MlLU or MILLU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A seaside village in the Lingeh district (c[.v.).
MIMAND—
A village in Kirman, situated on the banks of a stream, in a gorge, 3
miles north-west of the road from Bahramabad to Shiraz, and 38 miles
from the former town.— (Preece, 1892.)
MINAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Kirman, Persia, 141 miles west of Kirman, on the road to Shiraz,
26 miles east of Shahr-i-Babak. It consists of 300 or 400 caverns excavated
out of the face of the mountain, along which they extend for a quarter of a
mile. Some of these subterranean buildings are dug one above another
with a shelving path or steps to ascend to the upper ones, but in general,
they are all on one floor, with a large apartment in the centre and recesses
on each side. The inhabitants are not orthodox Mussalmans, but of the
sect of *Ali Illahis. They are frightfully dirty, their habits are pastoral,
and they keep vast flocks of goats and sheep.— (Pottinger.)
MINAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small, temporary village in the Pusht-i-Kuh of Luristan, consisting of
about 50 bough huts and so named from a pillar of crumbling masonry.
It is 45 miles south-south-east of Deh Bala on the road to Dizf ul. A spring
of water near it.— (Burton, September 1897.)
MINAU-— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan inhabited by the Bait-ul-Haji tribe.—
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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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