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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [293v] (591/988)
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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Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remabks.
Mianlu .
8 miles west-south
west of Kangan.
50 houses of Sunnis
of the Shafi’I School.
The village has a fort built
on an elevation. The
people are fishermen,
pearl-divers, traders,
date-gardeners and cul
tivators. They own 2
trading-vessels and
about a dozen fishing
smacks. The farm of
the place is 300 tiimdns a
year.
’Alannt or
Tumbak.
12 miles south-east
of Kangan.
225 stone houses.
The people are Sha
fi’I Sunnis.
The people are merchants,
sailors, fishermen and
pearl-divers and also
cultivate dates and
grain. They have about
a dozen trading-boats,
p ving all over the Gulf
and to Basrah and
’Oman, besides ha.f-a-
dozen fishing smacks.
There is a date-grove at
each end of the village
and a reef of rocks forms
a boat harbour.
This place is now farmed
for 650 turn ins a, year.
There is a post of the
Imperial Persian
Customs here.
Akhtar .
7 miles west by north
of Tahiri.
80 houses. The
people are mostly
Sunnis but some
are Slu’ahs.
The people are sailors,
fishermen, pearl-divers,
cultivators of wheat and
barley and date-
growers. Date-palms
number 1,000 ; live-stock
are 100 camels, 60
donkeys, 200 cattle and
2,000 sheep and goats.
They own several sailing
vessels and half-a-dozen
fishing baqarehs. The
farm of this village is 400
tumdns a year.
Bsgh-i-Shaikh .
2 miles west by north
of Tahiri.
40 houses. The
people are Shafi’i
Sunnis.
?
Tahir!
20 , miles south-east
of Kangan and 25
miles north-west of
Naband.
See article Tahir!
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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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