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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [357r] (718/988)
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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SUZI—vide GAKGAR (AB-I-).
SUZIAN— Lat. 32° 15' N.; Long. 52° 44' E.; Elev. 6,750'.
A village in the Bakhtiari country, 24 miles from Kaleh Bazuft, on the
road to Shushtar. It is situated in a well-cultivated and irrigated valley
in which vines, fig and walnut trees abound. Houses 40 to 50 in number.
A stream, on which is a small water-mill, traverses the valley. Supplies
for a small party obtainable from village. Water, fuel and grazing abund
ant. It has been confounded with Shush, as being the site of the ancient
Susa; but the latter, situated 20 miles south-west of Dizful, is accepted
as the true one—(McSwiney, 1891—Arbutknot, 1905.)
StjZU (?) SURU— Lat. (village tower) 27° 9' 34 ,/ ; Long. 56° 15' 0".
A small village, 2 miles south-west of Bandar ^Abbas, with a fort and
date-grove. {Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot—Abdul Rahim.)
T
TAB (River)— HINDlAN (River).
TABAR—
A cistern and
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
between Bafq and Yazd, some 30 miles from
the former.— {Pioneer’s Correspondent^)
TABATTI— Lat. 31° 56' N.; Long. 48° 56' E.; Elev.
A village of Northern 'Arabistan, situated on the river Gargar, 1 mile
below Shalaili and \ a mile inland. It contains 10 mud houses and reed
huts. 1 he inhabitants cultivate wheat aud barley and own a few cattle
but no buffaloes .—{Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TABIRAN— Lat. Long. Elev. 950'.
An Iliat camping-ground in Southern Luristan, Smiles from Dizfol on
the road to Pul-i-Kul. No village nor supplies. Water from a stream
reported to be scarce from July to September.— {McSwiney, 1891.)
TAFT-Lat. 31° 45' 16" N. ; Long. 54° 6' 45" E. ; Elev. 5,150'.-(Z^^.)
A village in the Yazd district about 15 miles south-west of Yazd town and
situated m the smaller district of Taft. The village lies in a broad elevated
valley between two ranges of hills and on both banks of a broad and gravellv
dry water-course. Owing to its situation it is not so cool as its elevation
TT.nn, °. ne to . su PP° se - South of the town rise the Shir Kul hills some
11,600 feet m height; the town is some 1,000 feet higher than Yazd and is
the summer resort of the rich inhabitants of Yazd.
It is a very long and straggling village, embosomed in gardens, and half
in rums. In summer it has a population of 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants
but in winter only some 800. The houses are said to number 1,400 to 1 500*
about a quarter of which belong to Parsis. There is a small mud fort perched
upon a rock overlooking the north end of the town, and a celebrated fire
temple. Ihe town contains a bazar with about 50 shops, and the gardens
extend round it for about 1 £ square miles. Yegetables, forage and firewood
are obtainable here, and there is a copious supply of water from numerous
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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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