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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎365r] (734/988)

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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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TAL—TAL
984.
TALAGUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A branch of the Tab river in Ears, crossed on the road from Shiraz to
Hindian.— {Felly.)
TALAK —Lat. Long. Elev.
A tributary of the Karun river in Khuzistan, which rises near Kuh Khanu
(?) and ; traversing Tang 13u Hamid, runs near the fort of Diz Malikan
and joins the Karan at Zuvrud (?). It is always fordable, unless swollen
by rains, when it becomes a most impetuous and dangerous torrent.—
{Layard.)
TALA MUKHTAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village contained in the Deh Bid district {q.v.); it consists of 20 houses
with a population of eighty. The yearly yield of wheat and barley is 20,000
mans .— Wilson, 1907.)
TAL ASHKI or ASHKANI— Lat. 28° 59' N. ; Long. 51° 18' E.j Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears containing 20 houses. The
inhabitants are of no particular tribe, and are under Bushire in the juris
diction of the Shaikh of Chah Kutah. They cultivate wheat, barley,
water-melons and dates, and own some donkeys. This may be Tul-i-
Siah (q. v.).—{Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TALASPID-Lat. 30° 16' N.; Long. 51° 85' E.; Elev. 2,830'.
A plain in the Shulistan district of Ears between the plain of Chal-i-Mureh
and the Shul river. It resembles the Chal-i-Mureh plain in everything
but shape, being circular rather than oblong. A noticeable feature of the
plain are the square mud towers of the Lur inhabitants, all placed on
artificial mounds commanding the huts or tents at their feet. These Lur
people stay here the whole year round and prefer not to build houses for
fear of the tax-gatherer obtaining a firmer hold on them by means of their
fixed residences. The plain is watered by the river which is known by the
numerous names of Fehlian, Ab-i-Shur, Rudlan, Tang-i-Khast and Shash
Pir, and which is described in this Gazetteer under the name of Shish Pir.
Rice-fields seem to absorb the whole of the rapid stream, for McGowan found
not a drop in the water-course, which leads south-west from the plain :
numerous irrigation channels are to be traced, notably the one leading to the
head of the Sar Ab-i-Siah valley. The valley is also extensively ctiltivated
with wheat and other crops.
The village, which formerly bore the same name as the plain, is now known
as Shab Sani {q. v.) — {Baring— Wells — McGowan, 1895 — Hopkins, 1903.)
TALAZI—.
A river on the western border of Luristan which flows south towards the
Tigris. It is crossed by Deh Bala-Dizful road, at 113 miles south-south
east of the former place, and is here brackish but drinkable. It flows at this
point in a stony channel, 30 yards wide and ten inches deep, with a quantity
of tamarisk growing in the bed, and much irrigated land in the vicinitv.
Large camps of Kurds with sheep, cattle, and goats, from October to April.
Enel and grass in abundance.— {Burton, September, 1897.)
Lower down it is called the Dawairij.
3 y 2

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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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