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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎145v] (295/988)

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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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NAII—NAJ
NAUR YOSUF—nV/e MUHAMMAREH District.
NAI MUSHKl—
A hamlet in the Bastak district of Laristan, about 36 miles west of Bandar
'Abbas, and 4 miles south of the road from that town to Lar.
It consists of some six houses containing about 30 inhabitants, who grow
dates and cultivate a little barley. Water is obtained from wells and from
one cistern.— (Shakespear, 190o.)
NAIKASH SARAB— see SARAT NA1KASII.
NAIS (1) —
A division of the ’Anafijeh tribe
NAIS (2) —
A sub-division of the Bani Turuf (<?.v.).
NAIZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the road from Bushire to Ahwaz along the coast, 54 milei
short of the latter; there were many herds of sheep and goats seen here.
The Arabs depend on pools of rain water and move camp as these diy up.
(Bailward, 1905.)
NAJAFABAD (1)— Lat. 29° 24' N.; Long. 55° 41' E.; Elev. •
A village in Kirman, 5 miles south of Saidabad, on the road from there
to Bandar 'Abbas.— (Gill, 1880).
NAJAFABAD (2)— Lat. 30° 23' N.; Long. 55° 54' E.; Elev.
A village 7 miles south-west of Bahramabad in the district of Rafsinjan,
20 houses, surrounded by cultivation and gardens. Water excellent from
karizes. — (Gibbon, 1908.)
NAJAFABAD (3.)— Lat. 30° 16' N.; Long. 56° 55' E. ; Elev.
A village in Kirman, about 7 miles west of the city of that name, on the
road to Saidabad.— (Napier, 1899.)
NAJAFABAD (4)— Lat. 32° 37' N.; Long. 51° 22' E. ; Elev. 5,800'.
Seventeen miles from Isfahan. A large and prosperous town, surrounded
by gardens and vineyards and somewhat celebrated for its ^ grapes, which
used to be sold to the Armenians of Julfa for making wine, but Agna
Naiafi has now forbidden this. Town contains 150 houses ’, population
1,000 ; 1,000 sheep and many mules and donkeys are owned by the towns-
people. Tales 18 tumans a year, which are vaq^f (sacred) to Najaf neai
Baghdad. There is fair open bazar which pays a tax of 500 tumdns y^ai y,
also five hammdms, three masjids, seven ([andts and a small stream; o,UUU
mans (39,0001bs.) of grain are sown yearly.
Palm-trees grow here to some size, and there is a celebrated avenue of
palm-trees 3 miles long.— {Schindler — Brecce.)
NAJAFABAD (5)—
A village of 20 houses, 4 miles from Yazd, on the road to Kirman ;
them aie a fair number of gardens.— (Preece, 1882.)

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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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