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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎291r] (586/988)

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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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SHI—-SHI
910
Groups of vil
lages and total
annual revenue.
P rovince to
which at
tached.
Village of the
group with
separate reve
nues where
known.
Local authority
or farmer of
the revenue.
Remarks.
3. ’Asalu and
Naband (with a
few villages in
the interior,
4,300 t umdns).
Gulf Ports .
Nakhl Taqi.
’AsalQ.
Bidkhun.
Halat Naband.
Naband.
Bariku.
Has Ghm-ab.
Ghaf Khuvfidan.
Tibin.
’Amariyeh.
Shaikh Saghar
bin Mubarak,
of Tamiml.
Up to 1905 the vil
lages from Nakhl
Taqi to Barku in
clusive besides
Tibin and ’Amari
yeh, were subject
dh’ectly to Shaikh
Ahmad bin Shaikh
Harami of ’AsalQ
and indirectly to
the Kh5n of
Dashti, who farm
ed them; the vil
lages of Ras
Ghurab, Ghaf,
and Khuvadftn
were at the
same time under
Shaikh Hasan
bin Mazkiir of
Gabandi. In
1906, the local
authority was
changed, and the
groups transfer
red from the ju
risdiction of Fars
to that of the
Gulf Ports. The
villages formerly
under the Nasiri
Shaikh are not
even now assessed
to revenue.
4. Shiyu with
the villages of
G a b a n d !
(12,000 tS-
mdns).
Ffirs.
(B a s t a k
District.)
Dastur.
Kharabeh.
Bustanu.
Buraghleh.
Ziarat.
Shaikh Hasan
bin MazkQr,
Nasuri, of Ga-
bandi.
Nil.
Qalstu.
Shiyu.
Sait-ash-Shai k h
(also the entire
valleys of Ga-
bandi and
’Asalu).
■5. Nuqam {800
tumdna).
Ditto
MuqSm.
Nakhilu.
Juzeh.
Makahil.
Shaikh Ahmad
bin ’Abdullah,
Hamadi, of
Muqam.
Nil.

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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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