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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [151r] (306/988)
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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who cultivate grain and own 400 animals > cattle and donkeys.— {Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
NASlRABAD (1)—Lat. 28° 43' N.; Long. 53° 51' E. ; Elev.
A village in south-east Ears, about 23 miles from Jehrum on the road
thence to Fasa. The village lies a little to the north of the road.— {Abbott
—Slot herd, 1893.)
NASIRABAD (2)— Lat. 29° 12'N.; Long. 54° 14' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears on the southern shore of Lake Niriz, 6 miles west
of Niriz town and on the road thence to Easa. A road to Bavanat also
branches off about here. The village only contains a few huts, but there
is a stream of good drinking water.— {Stotherd, 1893.)
NASlRABAD (3)— Lat. 33° 14' N.; Long. 48° 12' E. ; Elev. 400' (?)
A post house and telegraph station in Luristan, 38 miles from Khurram-
abad on the road to Dizful, which is 107^ miles distant, also known as
Maleh (kab ?) Nasir. Here there is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. Thermometer at 3 r.M.
in April 83°. Barometer 25 - 75°. — {Report of a Journey through the
Bakhtidri Country to Shushtar.)
NASlRABAD (4)— Lat. 28° 52' N. ; Long. 53° 44' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Fasa district of Ears, 1| miles south east of Fasa
town.— {Preece, 1884.)
NASIRl (1) — Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Rud Hilleh district of Ears on the coast between the
mouth of the Rud Hilleh stream and Bandar Rig. It contains 6 houses
inhabited by Kharak islanders. The inhabitants are Sunnis and speak both
Persian and Arabic ; they are fishermen only by trade and own 6 small
Mdshuwehs .— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
NASIRl (Canal) (2) —
A branch from the right bank of the Fallahleh canal in Southern Arabis-
tan.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
NASIRl (3) — vide BANDAR NASIRl. O
NASIRl (4)—Lat. 30° 8 ' N. ; Long. 56° 19' E. ; Elev.
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and a few houses in Kirman, 43 miles from Mashiz on
the road to Bahramabad, and about 2 miles to the south of the main caravan
track from Kirman to Bahramabad. It is watered by an irrigation channel
which comes from Sar-i-Band.— {Sykes, 1900.)
NASIRlYEH (1) Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the west shore of 'Abbadan island. It contains 50 mud
huts and is inhabited by Thawamir.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
NASIRlYEH (2) — vide BANDAR NASARl.
NASIRlYEH (3)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Kirman, 10 miles from Bahramabad on the road to Kirman.
—(Wood 1899.)
NASRABAD— Lat. 31° 46' N.; Long. 53° 53' E. ; Elev. 7,100 feet. {Sykes.)
A village, about 22 miles beyond Taft on the road from Yazd to Isfahan,
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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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