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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [141v] (287/988)
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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761
MUR—MUS
MCRl— Elev. 3,700'.
A well cultivated valley in the Bakhtiari country reached at 111 miles
from Dizful, on the road to Kaleh Bazuft via Duma Khail. There are a
few stone huts on the hill-side, which shew that all the year round there
are a few permanent inhabitants. Water (May) from stream in valley; no
supplies, fuel limited; good grazing.— (McSwiney, 1891.)
MURISTAN—
A small district in Faridan, on the slopes of the Parsisht Kuh,^ the sum
mer quarters of the Muri branch of the Chehar Lang Bakhtiari, whence
its name.— [Schindler.)
MURKH ZARRl—
A date-grove in the Shamil district, 41 miles from Bandar'Abbas, on
the road to Lar.— [Butcher } 1888.)
MURSHAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village near Nigar ( q.v.) in the Kirman district.
MUSA-ABAD— Lat. Long. ; Elev. 6,850'.
A small village in the Chehar Mahal plateau, in the Bakhtiari country,
situated on a tributary of the Ab-i-Jehan-bin, about 8 miles east of Shams-
abad and the Bakhtiarl caravan route.— -[Morton, 1905 — Arbuthnot, 1905.)
MUSAIYlR—
A canal branching off from the Jarrahi river on its left bank at a point
called Khazineh, where several other canals branch off. The dependent
population are Ka'b of the A1 BO 'All and Makasibeh sections. There
are date palms to the number of 5,000 and the annual yield of rice is about
2,000 Hashim mans .— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
MUSALLA—
A place near Shiraz where the poet Shaikh Sa'adi is buried.
MUSaLLAM (CHAH) —
A place in the Lingeh district [q.v.).
MUSGHUN— Lat. 29° 15' N. ; Long. 52° 9' E.; Elev.
A village in Pars, a few miles from Jarah towards Masarm, situated close
to the bend made by the Dalaki from south to west. Has a-considerable
trade in chalk. A short way beyond Musghun is a pass called Kutal-i-
Musghun, steep, but with a fairly good road, over soft lime. This pass can
be turned by a narrow path along the Dalaki river, a little to north-west.—
[Durand.)
MASHA— . -n--!- T. u ww
A village on the coast of Laristan, opposite Basidu. It has but tew
inhabitants, and these mostly fishermen and wood-cutters.—
MOSHiR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small new fort, in Pars, 42 miles from Shiraz, on the road to Busline
by Kazanin.— [Taylor.)
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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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