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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎157v] (319/988)

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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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NUS—PAD
together contain about 80 houses, and are watered by one qandt of sweet
and one of brackish water. Some supplies are procurable.— [Wood, October
1899.)
NUSRATABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Sirjan district of Kirman, a few miles west of Saidabad.
— {Dobbs, 1902.)
NfjYl.—
The Nuyl are a sub-tribe of the Kuhgalu (Chehar Banicheh) chiefly en
gaged in pastoral pursuits, under the leadership of Muhammad Shafi Khan,
and though wild, are not given to looting and thieving extensively. Their
sub-divisions are as follows :—
Ziluyi, I Muhammad ShfthI
Dilavarl, I P &ph
Shaikh’AbbM, | T4 Zangfi,
Sa’adat,
totalling 500 families, and capable of putting in the field 500 fighting
men armed with rifles of various patterns, of whom about 100 would be
mounted.
The boundaries of their land are :—Dast-i-Khird, Mulla-i-Gul, Duriza-
gun, Tong-i-Birza, Sar Fariab; and their habitations are in summer Duri-
zagun and Sar Fariab ; and in winter Pahna-i-Lali, and Hanchuna.
Communications .—The main track from Nuyi territories to Behbehan is
via Tang-i-Tikau and Gudar-i-Shamlak, and to Janaki is via Gurgur, Sateh,
Pul-i-Jalala.
For resources, taxation, etc., see under Kuhgalu.— (Ranking, 1910.)
P
PABlSHEH NA AMNUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A grassy plain in Ears, a few miles south-west of ‘Aliabad (8), in which
the town of Ab Bank is situated— [Vaughan, 1891.)
PADAM— Lat. 28° 27' N. ; Long. 53° 5' E. ; Elev.
A village in Fars, 33 miles on the road from Jehrum to Firuzabad, from
which it is distant 60 miles. The village is a collection of hovels, but it
has beautiful groves of palm, orange, and lemon trees, and the plain m
which it is situated is extensively cultivated.— ( K. Abbott.)
PADINA— Lat. Long. Elev.
Country situated at the base of Mount Dina, Fars. Limits unknown.
Stack speakfe of the Qashqai tribes marching towards the cool altitudes
of the snowelad Padina from the east of Fars, after the Nan Buz, or New
Year.— (D ur and—Stack,)
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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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