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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [289r] (582/988)
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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SHI—SHI
to tvhidh they heltmg are of no consequence. The following Arab tribes are,
however, deserving of notice :—
Name.
’AH (Al)
Estimated number of
souls in the Shib-
koh District.
Haram (Al)
Marazlq .
’Ubaidli
3,500 (also 300 in the
Lingeh District).
2,000
1,500 (also 300 in the
Lingeh District).
1,500
Where found.
At ’Asalu
band.
and Na-
At Mughu and Hasi-
neh (also at Bustff-
neh in the Lingeh
District).'
At Chlru and on Him
darabl island.
Remarks.
At C bardic and
TavunCh and on
Qais island (also at
Duvvan in Lingeh
District).
Sunnis. They are a
branch of ithe tribe of
the same name in Trucial
’Oman ' and maintain
intercourse and inter
marry with those of the
present stock. Those
at TsvQneh belong to a
section called Bushri and
ai-e at enmity with those
of Charak.
Sunnis. They claim to be
a section of a tribe called
Raz, yeh, and say they
immigrated from , the
neighbourhood of Mecca
about five or six genera
tions ago.
Wahhtbis. They
to be a branch
’Ajman tribe
Arabian side.,
claim
of the
the
The
on
Shaikh at Mughu belongs
to a section called Al
SulaimSn.
Sunn's. They claim to
be a section of a larger
tribe called Ahmadeh,
and say they ( are derived
' from the ’Abdeh Sham-
msr of Najd. The
’Abadileh of Trucial
’Omin are said to be .a
branch of this tribe.
The sections of the
’Ubaidli of ChirQ and
H indarabi are: Bit
’Ali, Al Bit ’Ali, Ba
Hasina, Maghair,
Mahaflr, Bani MuhannS,
Bani Miiqbil, and Bit
Sulaiman.
Armament .—Tire
localities as much as
more than £.
proportion of rifles varies froth place to place : in somfe
| of the male adult population are armed, in others not
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z'
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