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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [301r] (606/988)
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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SHI—Siil 920
Name.
Position.
Home and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
Haslneh —
contd.
used for fishing and for
pearl-diving on adjacent
banks. Haslneb is sub
ject to Shaikh Ahmad
bin Bashed MarzOqi, of
Mugho, and the inhabi
tants are on good terms
with their fellow tribes
men of Mughu.
MughQ .
r - w -
17 miles south-east of
Charak and 23
miles west by
north of Lingeh
town.
• • - • • . ,
See article Mughu.
The following villages connected with this district^ which are neither
upon the coast nor situated in the Gabandl, Asuh, or Gulshan valleys, are
deserving of notice :—
Name.
P osition.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
BavirdQn
Kundarun
t
; . .. :
V a r z a n g
(Chsh-i-).
i .
5 miles inland and 14
miles north-west of
MughQ.
.... wy ,r ■ .v
10 miles inland and
13 miles north-
north-west of
Mughu.
12 miles inland to
the north-west of
ChSrak.
40 houses of Wahha
bis.
150 houses of
Wahhabis and
’Shafi’ Sunnis.
A very small village
This place is under
Mughu . The people are
pearl-divers and agri
culturists ; they have
3,000 date palms, 10
camels, 40 donkeys, 30
cattle, and 1,500 sheep
and goats. There is
a water-cistern, also
wells, 4 fathoms deep.
A dependency of Mughu.
The people cultivate and
are pearl-divers. There
are 20,000 date palms
and live-stock are : 60
camels, 150 donkeys, 100
cattle and 4,000 sheep
and goats. The water-
supply is from 2 re
servoirs And from wells
4 fathoms deep.
Dependent on Charak.
—{Persi an
Gulf Gazetteer, 1918.)
35 a
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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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