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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎157r] (318/988)

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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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NUG—NUS
7T6
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deal of it is in nmis. The newest buildings are all outside the walls. The
hills immediately over the town to the east are very curious and look like
mud volcanoes. The streams of mud have passed round the bases of the
limestone hills, leaving the peaks cropping out. The town, which contains
400 houses (1,720 people) and is divided into six mahallehs or parishes,
belongs to peasant proprietors, who pay 1,010 tunidns taxes (200 tumdns
for grazing sheep and 810 for the six clangs). It is watered from qancits,
200ya'r7^ in 24 hours; 7W kharwdrs (455,000 lbs.) of wheat and barley
are sown yearly. In the town is a mill, and there are 1,200 sheep and 100
oxen for the plough— (Preece, 1802.)
NUGRAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village about 25 miles from Isfahan on the road to Du Pulan and
Shushtar. It lies west of the Gav-i-Pfseh pass. This is possibly the same
as Nauguran.— {Schindler.)
NUJAN— vide NAlJJlN.
NUK—
A populous but little known district in Kirman, to the north of Rafsin-
jan. The-Kuh-i-Nuk, a prolongation westward of tha Kuh-i-Badam rises
from it.— (Sykes, 1900.)
NUKDAB,— Elev. 4,350'.
An llidt winter camping-ground in Luristan, 68 miles on the road from
Dizful to Pul-i-Kul. No supplies in summer, but good water from springs
and fuel. Grazing indifferent.— (McSwiney, 1891.)
N UR A BAD— Elev. 3,650'.
A halting-place in Southern Luristan, 32 miles on the road from Dizful to
Pul-i-Kul. No supplies in summer. Puel plentiful. Water good and
plentiful except from July to September. Good grazing till the middle
of June.— (McSwiney, 1891.)
NURABAD (2) oe NURADARAD— Lat. 30° 3' N.; Long. 51° 43' E.; Elev.
A fort in Pars about 20 miles south of Pehlian, and 36 miles north-west of
Shiraz on the Hindian road. It is built in the plain and flanked by four
bastions. On every side of it are the reed-built huts and tents of the Mamas-
. . sani belonging to the tribe of Bakish. It is situated at the head of the
Shahpur stream, and is about 58 miles north of Kazarun.— (deBode—Belly
— Wells.)
NURABAD (3) —
A walled village in Pars, 32 miles from Deh Bid on the road to Yazd, stand*
ing amidst cultivation and gardens. 320 houses; 1,400 livestock; water
good and plentiful from a Kariz.—^(llme, 1906 )
NURAULA— Elev. 5,000'.
A stream in Western Kirmanshah, 8 miles west of Karind, between
Kirmanshah and Khaniqin.— (Gerard.)
NUSIIABAD— Lat. 39° 32' N. (?); Long. 55° 54' E.; Elev.
A village in Kirman, 78£ miles from the town of that name, on the road
to lazd. In close proximity is the village of Hasanabad, and the two
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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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