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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [201r] (406/988)
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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QUL—QUM
820
years remained in Alishtar or at all events gone no further S. than
Kuh-i-Dasht.— ( Wilson, 1911.)
QUL RUMIZI— vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
QUMABAD (1)—Lat. 30° 36' N.; Long. 56° 43' E.; Elev. 5,300'.
A village in Kirman, on the Kirman-Zarand road, 34 miles from the
former, and 14 miles from the latter place. The village, which consists of
13 houses, can furnish a few supplies. Good water and camel-grazing.—
(Wyatt, September 1899.)
QUMABAD (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Kurbal district of Ears.— (Dobbs, 1903.)
QUMABAD (3)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small walled village among gardens, in the plain of Murghab, Ears.—•
(Taylor.)
QUMAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district, 1 £ miles south of Ramuz town. It
contains 10 houses of Kuhgalu Lurs of the Bahmai and Taiyibi sections
and of Talavarl Bakhtiari. The owners arc Arsalan Khan and Hasan-
Khan.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
QUMASHLI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place, 40 miles south-west of Isfahan on the road to Chiagha
khur.— (Baring.)
QUMAT— Lat. 32° N.; Long. 38° 5'E. (?); Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, about 4 miles from the light bank of the Dizful
river and 6 miles above Kut Bandar, between Band-i-Qlr and Dizful. It has
a small mud fort, and is the first met with going up stream from Bandar-i-
Qir. It would be a suitable site for a depot of fuel for the navigation of
the river. It consists of 400 mud houses and mat huts inhabited by mixed
Arabs, and is divided into 4 hamlets called Saiyid Ahmad, Siayid Saim,
Saiyid Salih and Saiyid Khalaf. The inhabitants possess about 100 rifles,
and of the fighting men 100 are mounted.— (Selby —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.)
QUMISHEH (1)—Lat. 32° N. ; Long. 51° 55' E. (2) Elev.
A walled town of some size, in the Isfahan province on the road from
Isfahan to Shiraz, now largely in ruin. It is situated on an alluvial plain
watered by the Rud-i-Kuraieh and belongs to peasant proprietors. To it
belong the villages of Injan Isfarjan and Maqsud Begl.
There is a post office in the town, and it is a telegraph station of the Indo-
European line for administration purposes only.
The plain of Qumishehhas a length of 50 miles by a breadth of 16, and
contains some 40 mud-built villages. Round each village for a distance
• there is cultivation.
It is the seat of a Governor, who is nominated from Isfahan, to which
Government, this town belongs. The town consists of seven parishes of
about 8,000 houses in all; total population 30,000 to 60,000. There are
said to be 20 serais of 8 to 20 rooms apiece. There are 40 qandts', 100,000
mans (1,300,000 lbs.) of grain are sown yearly. Taxes amount to 25,000
t-umdns. Supplies of all sorts and water plentiful.
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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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