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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎153r] (310/988)

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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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NAU—NIA
772
NAUKAL MUKHL— Lat. 29° 11' N.; Long. 51° 4' E.> Elev.
A village in the Angall district of Ears 1^ miles north-west of Nauka
Gazi. It contains 45 houses inhabited by Lurs and supposed Earn lamim
Arabs, who cultivate wheat and barley, and own 50 donkeys and 200
sheep.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
NAUKAN— Lat. 28° 1' N. ; Long. 51° 52' E. (?); Elev.
A village in the DashtI district, about 2 miles north by west of Bardistan
in the middle of the Bardistan valley. There are 15 houses of ’Amranis
and Faqiha. They own 3 horses, 20 donkeys, 10 cattle, 300 sheep and
goats and 1,000 date trees .—{ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
MAUKAND— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,290'.
A camping-ground in Kirman on the Bandar ’Abbas-Saidabad road,
about 38 miles south-south-east of the latter place, on the southern edge
of the great Kavir. Water is plentiful but brackish.— {Newcomen, 1905.)
NAUSHABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Kirman, near YAzdanabad {q.v.)\
NAUTUKKHI—
(A branch of the Chahar Lang Baktiari) sedentary in the plain of
Tang-i-gram in the buluk of Fasa. 4 hey were brought here by Karim
Khan Zand. They speak the Bakhtiari dialect.
NAWASIR—
NAUZAR ok NAIZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of mountain between Behbehau and Shushtar. {I)ePocle.)
A division of the Bavieh tribe {q.v.).
NAZI bALl— Lat. Long. Elev. 1,170'.
A camping-ground in Luristan, 87 miles south-south-east of lleli Bala on
the road to Dizful. It consists of a grassy plateau with a brackish spring,
and a cane brake which provides fuel. Abundant grass. No supplies
except from casual flocks. The plateau is little over a mile from the Mama
river.— {Burton, September 1897.)
NAZAR AGHA1— Lat. 29° 25' N. ; Long. 51° 18' E.; Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Pars, 2 miles south-west of Dalaki.
It contains 150 houses inhabited by Borazjuris, Dashtis and Kazarunis.
The villagers cultivate wheat and bailey, and own some donkeys.—
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
NAZLEH —vide MUHAMMA District.
NAZRIAN—
A clump of Euphrates poplars in the south of Pusht-i-Kuh, about 8
miles west of Bisheh Daraz. There is a small spring there, but it was dry
in December 1909.— [flanking, 1909.)
N1AZ— Lat. Long. ; Elev. 5,220'.
A level valley in the Pusht-i-Kuh of Luristan, 14 miles south-west of
Deh Bala. There is a stream on its southern edge, which one track from
Deh Bala to Husainieh follows for 1| miles.—(Faugkan, September 1897.)

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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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