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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎109r] (222/988)

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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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minduvAn—
A large canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern , Arabistan ; on the
right bank of the river Jarrahi, with which it is connected. It irrigates
country cultivated by Dawariqeh and Itubaihat (Ka’b) Arabs who grow
dates and rice. At 3 miles from the river there is a settlement of 20 families.
The rice-fields extend for 3 miles.— [ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.) -
MIN LU— Lat. 27° 44' N. ; Long. 52° 13' E. ; Elev.
A small village on the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 3 miles westward of
'Aianat. See Shibkuh Ports.—(Constable — Stifle—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
MIR—Name of a tribe in Luristan (^. v.).
MIRABAD—
A small hamlet in Kir man, 50 miles from the town of that name, on
the road to Saidabad.— (Napier, 1899.)
MIR AMMAN (?)— Lat. 30° 4" N. ; Lota. 49° 39' E. • Elev.
Name of a tomb, 3 miles from Ras. Barkan, with some date-groves. It
is probably on the Hindian or Tab river, and is visible from the coast, when
near Ras Barkan.— (Constable — Stifle—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
MIRBACHEH— Lat. 31° 15' N. ; Long. 49° 28' E. ; Elev. 310'.
A village in the Ramuz district, about 11 miles west by south of Ramuz
town, on the main track from that place to Nasiri. Mirbacheh stands on a
mound about 80 feet high, ascended by steep, narrow paths and crowned
at the summit by a, fort-like enclosure. On the north-east, east and south
east sides the village spreads downwards to the plain, and on the north
west and south it is surrounded by plantations of young date palms, while
to the south-west there is a detached date-grove, and on that side a garden
extends to a distance of about half a mile from the mound. In winter the
surrounding plains are grassy.
The salt Muwailheh stream (vide article on Ramuz) passes about 2 miles
to the west of the village, and at a mile on the east side of Mirbacheh a
stream of fresh water, 2 yards wide and 2 or 3 deep, is encountered, besides
other smaller channels flowing to the north-westward. The ground on this
side is boggy and treacherous, but the channels are now bridged by logs.
These streams of fresh water on the east of Mirbacheh are said to have their
origin in a perennial spring some 10 or 12 miles south or south-east of the
village, of which the discharge is sometimes conducted by a channel, known
as the Ab-i-Ju ^Abdullah, to the lands between Mirbacheh and the Muwilheh
stream. It is possible also that they are connected with the Zarnini stream
of the Ramuz district.
The place consists of rather over 100 houses, of which 2 or 3 belong to
Lurs and the remainder to Bani Lam Arabs of the Kinaneh section. The
inhabitants possess about 70 rifles.
The irrigated lands are estimated at 90 khish or ploughs, the unirrigated
at 80 khish. The annual yield of the same in grain, which here includes
rice, is placed at 5,000 Ramuz mans. Date palms number about 6,000,
on the average about 15 years old, and are the property of the villagers.
Transport animals and other livestock are 40 horses, a large number of
donkeys, 400 cattle and 3,000 sheep and goats.
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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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