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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎199v] (403/988)

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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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819 QUB—QUL
QUBAD KHANl—
A clan of the Qashqai tribe of Iliats inhabiting the region from Maimand
to Padina in Pars njpiibering some thousand families and possessing some
hundred mules. They have no herds.— (Robertson.)
QUBBAN—
Generally pronounced Gubban. A deserted site on the western border of
the Fallahieh district of Southern 'Arabistan. It lies at the point where
the Khurs Bu Khuwairln and Khadhair unite to form the Qanaqeh branch
of Khur Musa, and it is distant about 12 miles south-east from the Marid
creek of the Karun river, and 7 miles north and a little east of the village of
Bu Shaneh on the Bahmanshir. Boats can come up the Khur Qanaqeh
to within 1 ^ miles of this place. In dry weather, e.g:, November, there is
scarcity of water round Qubban, but at other seasons the whole country to
the northward, as far as the eye can reach, becomes a swamp, and the mounds
mentioned below are converted into islands. These mounds are the only
traces of occupation now remaining. They are 8 in number, 20 feet high,
and appear to be relics of fortified buildings.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer,
1908.)
QUDRATABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village close to the road from Kirman to Yazd, ^opposite Mihdiabad
{q.v), 10 miles beyond Bahramabad. (Gill.)
QUDKUN— Lat. 31° 24' N.; Long. 55° 50' E.; Elev. 4,700b
A village on the southern border of Yazd, 29 miles from Bafq, towards
Kirman. It is situated in a very narrow valley, the houses being built
on a ridge rising tier upon tier. At the top there is an enormous chinar
tree supposed to be sacred. There is a tradition that Alexander the Great
planted this tree. Its houses are built, amidst huge masses of fallen rock,
surrounded by pomegranate, fig, willow, and other trees. The village
is supplied with water, in clear, gushing rills. There is little land fit for
cultivation. It has a local reputation for having a fine climate.— (Abbott
■ — Stack.)
QULI KUSH—
A pass in Ears over which the road from Shiraz to Isfahan runs, 11 miles
north-north-west of Deh Bid. On the south side the ascent is steep, and
the road passes over bare rock and loose stones. The descent on the north
side is also steep and difficult, several dry ndlas with steep banks being
crossed.— (Howe, 1906.)
QULI SHAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village between Qehfarukh and Bagh-i-Vahsh, on the road from Isfahan
to Shushtar, 40 miles from Isfahan at the foot of the Gardan-i-Kuh-i-Rukh
in the Linjan district.— (Schindler.)
QULI SHAH RUKH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Isfahan-Shushtar road, near the Gardan-i-Rukh.
(Raring.)
QULI WAND—
A tribe of the Silsileh group in Luristan. A once numerous tribe, now
dispersed, formerly wintered in the Saidmarreh Valley but has for some

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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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