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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [295v] (595/988)
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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915
SHI—SHI
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remaeks.
Nakhl Hashim.
About 2 mi'es east' of
Naband on the
south shore of Na-
.band Bay.
20 huts. The people
are Sunnis.
N a b a n d
About miies east
50 huts. The people
are mostly Shafi’l
Sunnis.
The people cultivate dates
(Halat).
of Nfiband on the
south shore of Na
band Bay.
and grain and own 6
vessels on w'hich they go
to the Bahrain pearl-
banks, besides 20 smaller
baqdrehs and varjl from
which they fish and dive
for pearls along their
own coast.
Naband .
On the south shore of
Naband Bay, 4
miles south of
’Asalu and 38 (? 45)
miles west-north-
west of Shiyd.
See article Naband.
Banka .
About 7 miles-south
east of Naband.
Half- a dozen huts.
The people are Sha-
fi’l Sunnis.
The people have some
boats from which they
fish and dive for pearls
on banks near the
village. There is a well
of good water here.
Bas Ghurab
About one mile
south-south-east of
Bariku.
Half a dozen houses,
but not permanent.
The inhabitants, who
come from places
in the Gabandl valleys,
are Sunnis. About
twenty varjis are kept
here and there is pearl
diving on banks near
the village.
Ghaf
Less than a mile
from Efts Ghurab.
Half a dozen houseis .
A dozen varjis are owned
here and there is diving
on adjacent pearl-banks.
Khuvadnn
About 7 miles south
east of Ghaf.
8 huts. The people
are Shafi’l Sunnis.
The people possess 4 baqd
rehs and 10 varjis, used
for fishing and pearl
diving, also two water
reservoirs.
Tibin
About 7 miles south
east of Khuvadan.
10 huts .
Tibin is a port of the
Gabandl District. The
inhabitants possess 3
or 4 baqdrehs and 8 or
10 varjis., There are
5 water reservoirs. The
Imperial Persian Cus
toms have a post here.
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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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