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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [297v] (599/988)
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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917
SHI—SHI
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tant.
Bemabks.
Buraghleh
Some distance to the
east of BastanO.
45 houses of Sh&fi’i
Sunnis.
There are 2 water reser
voirs. The people own
about 6 fishing baqdrehs,
which in summer are
used for pearl-diving.
Ziirat
About 2 miles south
east of Buraghleh.
40 houses of Shafi’i
Sunnis.
There are 2 water reser
voirs and the people own
4 fishing baqdrehs, which
in summer they use for
peal-diving near the
village.
QalatQ
About 4 miles west of
Shiyu (p).
There is 1 reservoir here.
Sliiyu
38 (P 45) miles east-
south-east of Na-
band and 73 miles
west-north-west of
Charak.
See article ShiyQ.
Saif-ash-Shaikh
Between Shiya and
Maqam.
10 houses of Shafi’i
Sunnis.
The people are sailors,
fishermen and divers.
They have 4 or 5 small
baqdrehs which they use
for fishing and for pearl
diving. *
Maqam .
22 miles east-south-
east of Shiyu.
See article Maqam.
Nakhilu
3 miles south of
Maqam.
80 houses of Sunnis .
The people fish, dive for
pearls, cultivate and
grow dates: they own
two large boats which
go to ^the Bahrain pearl-
fisheries, and a dozen
smaller ones which are
employed in sea fishing
in winter and in pearl
ing on the Shaikh
Shu’aib banks in
summer.
Jizzeh
: r. :
7 miles south-south
east of NakhilO,
and 8 miles west of
the nearer end of
Shaikh Shu’aib
island.
100 houses of Sunnis
There are date gardens
and some cultivation;
the people also fish, dive
for pearls and navigate,
and a few engage in
trade. They own 2 or
3 largish boats which go
to the Bahrain pearl-
banks, and a dozen
smaller ones which are
used for fishing in winter
and in summer for pearl
ing operations near
home.
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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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