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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [299v] (603/988)
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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i’i
919
SHI—SHI
Name.
I
P osition.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remakes.
Tavuneh—
contd.
s
'harak
Hasineh
34 miles east of Chiru
and 16 miles west-
north-west of
Mrghu.
8 miles south-east of
Ch&rak.
i
.c'.i.u.
200 houses of MarS,-
ziq, mostly Wahha
bis.
cultivation but chiefly
follow sea-faring occu
pations. To this place
belong a couple of
trading sambuqs and
over 25 small baqdrehs
and shu'ais : the smaller
crafts are used for fish
ing and also for pearling
at Mawah and the is
lands of Farur and
Shaikh Shu’aib. The
Shaikh of Charak is
responsible for the re
venue to the Persian
authorities, but seldom
succeeds in recovering
any of it from the village.
The local authority is
Shaikh Muhammad
bin Rahmat, the head of
the Bushri section of the
A1 ’All.
See article Charak.
Kuh Namaki rises im
mediately inland of the
village. Some of the
people follow agricul
tural pursuits and
cultivate dates, but the
majority are engaged in
navigation and trade.
A number of them are
Nakhudas command
ing vessels belonging to
Lingeh and the ports
of Trucial ’Oman, and
the rest are mostly
sailors and pearl-divers.
They own 10 trading-
vessels, baghalehs, ghun-
chahs and sambuqs
which ply in the Gulfs
of P ersia and ’Oman
and pay occasional visits
to Indian ports, pos
sessing also some 15
smaller cfaft which are
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z'
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