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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [205v] (415/988)
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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^ 2'5 RAG—RAH
Leal /^r.—There is a certain amount of inferior leather made locally.
All sheep-skins are retained mostly for turning into pushtins y
etc. Goat-skins to the number of between 5,000 to 6,000 are
sent down to Bandar ’Abbas, whence they find their way to the
Arab coast.
Imports. The chief imports of Rafsinjan are :—
Cotton fabrics and prints. —The imports of grey goods and shirtings
average, as far as could be ascertained, 20,000 pieces.
—Almost entirely Lamsars. 15,000 to 20,000 lbs. annually.
Sugar. —Loaf, some 50,000 batmans yearly, at to krdns per bat
man. Crystal, about 40,000 batmans yearly, at to 4 kr'ans
per batman.
Kerosene oil. —500 to 600 cases, at 35 krdns per case.
Candles. —About the same amount, at 35 krdns per box of 30 lbs. Silks
(Persian), glassware (Austrian), china (Persian and English),
enamelled ware (Russian), spices (Indian), iron, copper, and tin
sheets (English), cutlery (English and Belgian), umbrellas
(Indian), and cheap, flash ornaments (mostly Austrian and
German) are imported also in quantity to fill the stalls of a
fairly large bazar.
Some 15 miles north of Bahramabad there is an opening into an under
ground river, the Chah-i-Daria, the waters of which, if tapped, Would be
available to largely increase the area under cultivation.
A customs house has been established for the prevention of “ gun-run
ning
The district is not without interest from an antiquarian point of view,
as iron spear-heads, a foot long, with a broad point, are often picked up.
Twenty-eight degrees (Fahr.) of frost were registered about Christmas
1905.— {Stack — Preece, 1892 — Sykes, 1903 — Nowcomen, 1905.)
The district suffered heavily from flood in 1910, the loss being estimated
at £200,000. The village of Rafsinjan was utterly destroyed, as were others,
no signs of gardens, houses, or cultivated fields being left.
RAGHAIWEH— Elev. 380'.
200 houses inhabited by Makawandis and Shaikh Jinam Arabs.
Headquarters of the son of the late Shaikh Jinam. Water from wells
about 6 ' deep, scarce and brackish. Supplies sufficient for 400 mules daily.
Fuel scarce, chiefly from cowdung cakes.— {Ranking, 1910.)
RAHAIMANIYEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A tract of land in Southern ’Arabistan on the river Karun between the
villages of Sab’eh and Mansleh.— [Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905).
RAHATABAD—[RAHMATABAD (?)]—
A village in the province of Fars, situated in the Kalilak plain about a
mile east of the road from Shiraz to Deh-i-Nau. Rations for one squadron
sailable here in September.— {Howe, 1906.)
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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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