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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎389v] (783/988)

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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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1009
TAS—TAS
There used to be a spring of very clear water here, where sacred fish were
kept, but in 1909 there were no traces of the fish, through the spring was
found.
Tashan is the site of extensive remains of what, probably in the time of
the Atabegs, was a large town. It extends for about 2 miles along the
skirts of the range, in the vicinity of Tang-i Band, with an average breadth
of about 1^ miles. Few of the houses have any roofs on, such as have are
inhabited by the Sa'adat-i-Tashan. They are mostly square in ground
plan, with domed roofs and pointed arches, built of undressed stones
mortared together with a substance closely resembling gach (gypsum).
No inscriptions are to be found either in the remains of the town itself
or in the vicinity nearer than the Tang-i-Band and the Tang-i-Sarvak (Tang
-i-Saulak of de Bode).
The Tashan lands belong to Haji Khusrfi Khan, Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -uz-Zafar, and
Yusuf Khan, Amir-i-Mujahid, by whom they were let to^AliNaki Khan for
an annual rental of 3,000 twhdns.
These lands are well watered and inhabited by some 200 families, some
of whom are Bahmai. The rest go by the name of Sa’adat-i Tashan.
The district is capable of supplying 150 fighting men, of whom, however,
only §rds would be aimed with rifles, and even those with weapons of
rather antiquated pattern.
Resources. —The Tashan lands contain bitumen springs. Two dungs (£rd of
total area) of this oil-bearing land belongs to Ali Naki Khan, while the rest
viz. 4 dungs belongs to Haji Khusru Khan, Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -uz-Zafar, who leased,
his share of the property to '’Ali Naki Khan for an annual rental of 500
lumans. Large quantities of bitumen are dug up 'annually and sold in
Behbehan, fetching 30 to 40 Icrans per maund.
The following is an estimate of the property of inhabitants, and of their
produce surplus to requirements:—
1.000 cows ; 4,000 sheep; 1,000 donkeys; 50 horses;
3.000 maunds 2,000 maunds 1,000 maunds 500 maunds 500 maunds
rice; wheat; linseed; sesame; tobacco.
2,000zz<7, 1,000 A'zza 100 maunds 500 maunds
wool; goat hair; ghi ; gum arabic.
As taxation they pay $00 tumdns annually to the Behbehun Governorship,
and as internal taxation 'Ali Naki Khan takes j of the produce.
^ Jhe inhabitants of Tashan trade exclusively with^Behbehan.— [Ranking,
TASHK— Lat. 29° 51' N. • Long. 53* 34' E. ; Elev.
A small and ruined village in Ears, at the head of a bay on the northern
shore of Lake Nargis and miles north-west of Abadeh (2). The inhabit
ants are of the LasnanI tribe, but they live in tents lower down on the edge of
the lake. There is a very good stream of water here, and a garden with a
domed tomb. Wells found the wild myrtle-groves here growing as high as
18 feet. 1 here is a ruined watch tower built on a peak of one of the hills.
Tashk also gives the alternative name, Daria-i-Tashk, to Lake Nargis.
Wells—Rreece, 1892—Slot herd 1893.)

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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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