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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎117r] (238/988)

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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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MUH—MUH
736
MUHAMMAD AHMADI— Lat. 29° 2' N.; Long. 57° 10' E.; Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears, | a mile south of Chah Kutah,
containing 20 houses inhabited by Damukh Arabs, who are Sunnis and
speak both Persian and Arabic. The crops comprise dates, wheat and
barley, and there are a few donkeys belonging to the villagers. The village
is under Bushire and is administered by the Shaikh of Cha Kutah.— (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MUHAMMAD f ALl—L at. Long. Elev.
A village near the river Shatait (q.v.)
MUBAMMADI (1)— Lat. 32 0 47' N.; Long. 51° E. (?); Elev.
A village in the Tihran-Karvan district, about 6 i miles from VarpushL
to the right of the road from Isfahan to Burujird and at the foot of the
Kikh-i-Muhammadi (q.v.)(Schindler.)
MUHAMMADI (2) —
A canal branching off from the right bank of the Jarrahi river. The
dependent population are KaT of the Muqaddam section. Bice is grown,
about 2,000 Hashim mans being the annual crop, and 1,000 of wheat.
There are 2,000 date-trees.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MUHAMMADI BAHMAl— See MahmOdt Bahma!.
MUHAMMAD JAMALI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, 2 miles north of Deh Kuh-
neh. It contains 30 houses inhabited by Dasht-i-Buris from Khisht and
immigrants from the MuzaraT district. Wheat and barley are cultivated,
and the villagers collect gum in the Taviseh hills. The live-stock consists of
50 donkeys.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MUHAMMABAT-UL- J ATlQEH— vide MUHAMMABEH (District)
(HIZAN).
MUHAMMAREH (Town)—Lat. 30° 25' 48"; Long. 48° 11' 13"; Elev.
Situated about 60 miles from the bar off the mouth of the Shatt-al- J Arab
and 40 miles from Eao at its mouth, Muhammerah is the capital and most
important town of the province of Arabistan and lies at the junction of
the present main exit of the Karun and Shatt-al-’Arab rivers. Thiscxit
known as the Haffar Canal (haffar-dig) is supposed to have been built by
Alexander the Great to avoid sailing down the Karun and incidentally to
open up direct communication with the Shatt-al-'Arab. Whether this be
true or not, Alexander—according to Lord Curzon—founded one of his
Alexandrias on or near the site of the present town. After destruction by
flood it was successively known as Antiochia and Charax.
Ardeshir Babehan rebuilt the town in A. D. 235 and changed its name to
Astrabad; when it received its present name is unknown. Some centuries
ago when Dizful, Shuster and Ahwaz were important cities, Muhammerah
was a port of some renown. With the decline of these cities, however, it
fell into disuse, for early in the present century it was rebuilt by one of the
Sheikhs of the Muhaisen tribe of Arabs with the object of resisting Turkish
encroachments. Opened a few years later as a free port by one of his suc
cessors, the new port so greatly interfered with the trade of Basrah that the
Turks sent an expedition and captui’ed it in 1837. It was during the wars

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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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