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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [223r] (450/988)
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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ROB—ROD
842
The village, which has a good
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and a large and well-built
fih-dmbar, consists of about 300 houses, with a population of 700, and be
longs to Saiyids. Extensive cultivation surrounds it, and it is watered
by 4 qandts, the water of which is slightly brackish. Near the serai there is
a hauz with excellent water.
The crops consists of 30,000 mans of wheat and barley, 5,000 mans of
millet, 3,000 mans of bhusd, 2,500 mans of cotton, and 2,500 mans of beet
root. Wood scarce. Camel-gazing good from adur.
Six hundred sheep and 200 cows are procurable, besides a fair quantity
of other supplies; 200 donkeys can be hired at 1 krdn per day. The mdlldt
is 5.000 tumdns. — -[Preece, 1892 — Wood. 1899 — -Newcomen. 1905 — -Gibbon,
1908.)
ROB AT (4) —
Destroyed by flood, 1910.
ROB AT (5)—See also RAY AT.
A village in Kirman, Persia, 28 miles west of Shahr-i-Babak. It is small,
and surrounded with a wall, and is the westernmost in Kirman. The
vicinity produces tobacco, which Pottinger considers the mildest and best
in the world, and which is usually sold under the name of Shiraz tobacco.—
(Pottinyer.)
RUACH—
A valley, south-west of Isfahan.—-( Chesney.)
RUBAI HAT—
A section of the KaT tribe {q.v .).
RUB ARC— vide RUD ABRU.
RUBATAK —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, about 15 miles from Jireh towards Kazarun. Is fairly
prosperous, and belongs to a Saiyid. There is a good spring here.-—- [Durand.)
RUD ABRU or RUBARU— Elev. 7,400'.
A small village in the Pusht-i-Kuh district of the Bakhtiarl country.
It is situated on the right bank of the Ab-i-Sabz Kuh, about 6 miles east of
Naghun.— -{Morton, 1905 — Arbuthnot, 1905.)
RUDAK (1)— Lat. 29° 11' N.; Long. 54° 10' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears, on the north of the road from Khir to Nirlz, about 17
miles east of the former.— [Wells.)
RUDAK (2)— Lat. 29° 40' N.; Long. 51° 28' E.; Elev.
A village in the plain of Khisht [q.v.).
RUDBAL— Lat. 28° 44' N.- Long. 52° 37' E.; Elev.
A small village in Ears, about 10 miles from Firuzabad on the alter
native route thence to Jehrum, which branches off southward at the village
of Tih Dasht. The village lies high up on the hillside about 1 mile north
west of the exit to the defile on the road. At the exit are a spring and stream
of good water and a garden belonging to the village. — — Stotherd.
1893.)
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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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