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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎225v] (455/988)

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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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845
HUD—RUD
A thick layer of mud covers the countryside. At Mahmadi the river
rises un to 24 feet. Bell says that the river is fordable at Kaleh birhan.
It is there a sluggish stream, 100 yards wide, 3' 6" deep, with a firm, san y
bottom, and flowing between banks 12 feet high. {Bell ( hick, 1J10.)
RODlAN, or TANG-I-RUDlAN—L at. 30° 2' N.; Long. 52°3' E.; Elev.
5,400'.
A village in Ears, some 45 miles north-north-west of Shiraz and 18 miles
south of Bakum. It is a small village, and is situated in a narrow valley
carved out of the plateau by the Shish Pir of Fehlian river, about £ mile
in width and overlooked by high hills. The village lies at the junction of
the Shish Pir river with another considerable stream, both of which are un-
fordable in many places. Near the town Hopkins reported the^ livei
as running in a sandy bed with a width of 40 yards, a depth of 18 inches,
and a swift current. He also says that it flows parallel to the Pul-i-Duzakh
stream. There is a tufangchi tower situated above, and on the east of, the
village. It is built of masonry, and, before the days of long-range fire
arms, was a hard place to take. It is, however, looked ftvto, and command
ed by, hills on both sides. Rudian is a picturesque-looking and pleasant spot
with a large number of fine walnut trees and grassy banks. r lhe air is cool.
Firewood here is plentiful and there is a small camping-ground. Near the
village is cultivation extending to some 10 or 12 square miles. [Jones
Wells— Vaughan, 1891 — McGowan, 1895 — Hopkins, 1903.)
RUD-I-KHARA—
A tributary of the Halil Rud in Kirman, which is crossed by the load
from Baft to Saldiibad, 12 miles west of the former place.— [Sykes, 1900.)
RUD-I-KHUSHK (?)—
A small river in Fars, said to rise in the Bairami hill of Khurmuj, and to
join the Ahram stream close to that village. It is crossed close to the com
mencement of the ascent to the Khiku pass.— [Durand.)
RUD-I-MARUN— vide MARUN (River).
RUD-I-MARUNl—
A ndld in Kirman, up which the road from Saidabad to Baft runs for
some distance, 29 miles from the former place.— [Sykes, 1900.)
RUD-I-NAKSH-I-RUSTAM—
A river on the borders of Fars and Laristan, flowing eastwards. It is
crossed on the road between Lar and Darab, at 14 miles south of Darab bj
an arched masonry causeway, and at 11 miles south of Darab by aford, neai
the village of Bizdan. There is also an ill-constructed bridge of 9 arches
near this point. The ford, normally about a foot deep, is about 30 yards
broad, the stream being 15 feet wide. In flood time both the causeway
and roadway of the bridge are under water.— [Vaughan, 1890.)
RUD-I-SHUR (River) —
A salt stream which rises in the coast-range of Fars, where it is called
Talseh, to the north-east of Bandar Rig ; it passes a little to the east ol the
village of Oh£r and to the west of that of Anjireh, and either falls into the
Rud Hilleh stream near Makibari or else, turning eastwards at Puzagh,

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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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