'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎209r] (422/988)

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origin who are described as Ahl-i-Ramuz. There are about 100 indifferently
supplied shops, partly collected in a vaulted bazar, 100 yards in length, and
partly scattered through the town. There are also two water-mills. M ood,
fuel, and charcoal are cheap. The plain to the south-east is cultivated
and irrigated. Two miles to the south is a fine house of the Sipahdars built
in 1900. Several good gardens already exist on the south side of the town
and others are being laid out on the north side. The trees are dates, oranges,
pomegranates, figs, lemons, and vines. Irrigation is from a canal which takes
out of the Ramuz river near its exit from the hills, and about 5 miles east
of the town. The water is fresh and good, and is used for drinking. There
are also wells, said to be about 50 feet deep, but they are little used. Ramuz
town is the chief centre of trade in the district and here the produce of the
adjacent hills finds a market. Messrs. Lynch Bros, have an agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at
Ramuz in charge of a native. There is a Persian Government Telegraph to
Nasiri on the one side and to Behbehan on the other. There is no post
office. The town appears to have covered at one time an area much greater
than that which it occupies to-day. It possesses two shrines; one, the Haft
Tanan, in the north-east corner of the town among some date palms; the
other, the 'Alamdar, with a tapering dome, in the outskirts, north of the
centre of the town.
The bulk of the exports from Ramuz is corn, rice, etc. Messrs. Lynch
Bros, sell only iron and sugar. Merchants bring tea, English cloth, etc.,
from Shushtar and Wais.
Ramuz in the 10th century A.D. was a prosperous place, famous for its
raw silk. There were excellent markets and a fine Jama'’ mosque built
by the Buyids. It possessed also a celebrated library. The name Ram
Hormuz, received from King Hormuz, grandson of Ardashir Babakan,
was already in the 14th century A.D. generally shortened to Ramuz.*
(Fars-nameh — Burton, 190S—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
RAMUZ, or RAM HORMUZ (District).
The easternmost district of "Arabistan ; it is attached for fiscal purposes
to the northern division of that province, and may, therefore, be reckoned,
though administered separately from the rest, to belong to Northern "Arab-
istan.
Boundaries .—The Ramuz district is bounded along its north-eastern side,
beginning at some naphtha springs known as Naft-i-Safid, at its northern
.corner, by the Kuh-i-Gach range, which reaches to the Ramuz river; its
south-eastern corner is on the Marun river, above Jaizan, which is included
in the district. From Jaizan the boundary runs at a short distance from
the left bank of the Marun to a point Cham Mani, on the Jarrahi, 3 miles
below the confluence of the Ramuz and Marun rivers. From CLam Mani
thence it is continued to the low mud and rock hills through which the
Jarrahi breaks above Cham Sabi, crosses that river and, following the
same hills, arrives at a point on the Ramuz-Nasiri route on the eastern
verge of the Bu'airish plain, and about 9 miles east of the village of
* Vidt Le Strange.