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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [203r] (410/988)
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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QUM—QUR
822
Thermometer Reading for the Section of Qumieheh —concld.
1884.
Thebmometek.
Bulbs.
Remabks.
Month.
Maxi
mum.
Mini
mum.
Day.
Wet.
Weather.
Wind.
January
February
55'CO
56'20
32'62
27'96
45'00
45'93
41-80
41-37
Fine.
Do.
If any S.-W.
generally calm
Lo.
1 day’s rain.
A litte rain one day.
March . .
64'25
35'35
53-03
49-96
Do.
Do.
1 day’s snow.
May .
85'00
52'23
7133
59-19
Do.
Do.
2 days’ rain.
June .
87'66
69'88
79-26
66-30
Do.
Do.
3 days’ rain.
MEAN TEMPERATURE.
Month.
1885
1886
1887
1888
January .
38
36
35
43
Feb: nary
.
42
41
43
42
March .
.
51
48
53
54
April .
•
.
60
-
May .
•
75
76
Jnne .
.
74
83
83
July .
.
.
80
85
94
August .
.
80
80
79
September
•
68
66
October .
.
.
•
...
55
...
November
.
•
19
48
December
•
• •
44
42
42
QUMISHEH (2)— Lat. 29° 44' N. • Long. 52° 30' E. ; Elev.
A large village in Ears, 10 miles north-north-west of Shiraz, on the road
to Behbehan. With the adjoining village of Anjireh it is surrounded by
a mile of cultivation and the sides of the valley in which it stands are covered
with vineyards.— (Hopkins, 1903.)
QURAT— Lat. 26° 46' N.; Long. 53° 20' E. ; Elev.
A village in the island of Shaikh Shu’aib,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, 6 miles from
the east end of the island on its southernmost part. It has 50 houses and a
tower and large groves of date and other trees.— (Constable—Stiffc—Persian
Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
QUR1YEH GANJEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Dizful district adjoining Bunvar Nazir. It consists of
about 40 bouses of mud with timber roofs, forming a fort: the people are
Dizfuli. The only arms are a few muzzle-loaders. There is a good supply
of water from the Diz river by a canal which takes off from the right bank,
below the bridge at Dizful town. Wheat, bai ley, beans, and rice are
Pt. II. 3 M
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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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