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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [149v] (303/988)
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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Geological description. —The mountains of Narasjan consist of ranges
much broken and cut by deep valleys and ravines—the principal valleys
running north-west to south-east, and the smaller ones having no regular
direction.
They rise to 3,000 or 3,500 feet.— ( Winklehmer, 1891.)
NARASTUN—
on the road from Riz to Jam. A village of 60 families.— {Winklehmer, 1891.)
NARGIS— vide DARlA-I-NlRlZ.
NARGISl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Ears about 9 miles from Jam on the road to Rfz ; there
are only 20 mat huts here.— {Butcher, 1888.)
NARGIS ZAR— Lat. 28° 44' N.; Long. 51° 7' E.; Elev.
A village near the coast of the Tangistan district of Ears, 3 miles north
of Rashi. It contains 40 houses and there is cultivation of wheat, barley
and dates.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
NARP— Lat. 29° 45' N.; Long. 56° 40' E.; Elev,
A village near Nigar {q.v.) in the Kirman district.
NARZ— see FADUMI
NASA— Lat. 28° 8' N.; Long. 56° 25' E.; Elev. about 3,300'.
A village in Kirman, 25 miles north-west of Ahmadi, on the road between
Bandar 'Abbas and Saldabad. It consists of some 10 huts with a four-bas-
tioned fort in fair repair, a large date-grove and a little cultivation. Few
supplies are procurable and the water, though plentiful, is not good. There
is a limited quantity of camel-grazing.— {Newcomen, 1905.)
NAS BAND— Lat. Long. Elev.
A fort in Ears, 9 miles west of Khvansar, on the Kirman-Shiraz road—
{Preece, 1892.)
NASHALIL TANG-I— Lat. Long. Elev. 2,800'.
A narrow valley in the Lower Bakhtiari country, leading south-eastwards
out of the plain of Malamir near its southern extremity. The Bakhtlaii
caravan route passes through it on its 12th stage from Isfahan between
miles 195 and 203. The valley has all the appearance of an English park
dotted over with good-sized oaks, where it not for the innumerable stones
in the grass and the rocky hills which enclose it on both sides. High up
in a cavern, in the rocks on the left of the road just after entering it from
the Malamir plain, called the Shikaft-i-Sulaiman, are found a number of
sculptures either of Susian or Achaemian origin, and dating back to 800 or
9UU B.C. Its south-eastern exit is about 4 miles from Kaleh-i-'lub
There is no water to be found in this \a\\<dy.— {Arbuthnut, 1905.)
NASlMABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 10 miles north-west of Varpusht on the road from Isfahan to
Bui ujlrd.— {Schindler.)
NASIRABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Southern Arbistan on the right bank of the river Hindian,
l)s miles south-south-east of Sarkhurreh. It is inhabited by 500 Ja'afarls^
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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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