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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎297r] (598/988)

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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
916
Name.
Position.
’Amarieh
Dastur ,
KJiarabeli
Bust&nU
hr.B
TJ'n:
On a hill about 7
miles south-east of
Tibia.
About 7 miles south
east of ’Amariyeh.
Quite close
Dastur.
to
About 3 miles south
east of Kharabeh.
blouses and inhabi
tants.
17 houses. The
people are Shafi’i
Sunnis.
A dozen houses of
Sunnis.
A very small ham
let. Tie people
.^re Sunnis.
100 houses of Sunnis
Kejiaeks.
The people fish at home in
winter, and in summer
most of them go pearl-
diving in other parts.
There is a water re
servoir here. Localities
connected . with. this
place, and situated
between it and Tibin are
Sar-i-P usht with 2 wells
of fresh water; Y&pasi
with 2 reservoirs; and
Barmu with 2 reser
voirs. At the last is
situated a fort.
There is a water reser
voir. Tie inhabitants
have some 8 boats which
they use for fishing in
winter _ and for pearl
diving in summer.
The people are fishermen
and have some ■wells of
good, fresh water and'
about 200 palm trees.
There are some ruins
here.
This is the port of the sur
rounding districts and of
Tarakameh ; it is under
the ISasuri Shaikh of
Gabandj. There i s a
considerable trade with
Bahrain. Tobacco and
sheep from Tarakameh
are exported, and about
100 bales of piece-goods
and 9,000 bags of rice,
etc., ape imported
annually from Bahrain.
The inhabitants trade
and cultivate grain
and dates. They own
several large boats which
run to Bahrain, Qater
and Qatif and are used
for pearl-diving on the
Bahrain banks; also
several smaller fishing
vessels.

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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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