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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [397v] (799/988)
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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1017
TUR—TUW
tobacco is exported to Bushire via Bandar Rig.— (loreign Department
Gazetteer, 1905.)
TURKl—
Houses 20. Population 40. Rifles 6. Livestock 50. Water from
wells and db-ambdrs. Irrigation from wells. Some crops are bdrdnl.—
(Sultan Muhammad, 1909.)
Note. —Probably the same as Turkaki.
TURSH AB—Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Kirmar, 9 miles west of Gaud-i-Ahmar, on the road to Mashiz.
(Sykes, 1900.)
TURUF (BANI)■— vide BANl TURUF.
TURUM PTJSHT— Lat. 31° 32' N.; Long. 53° 54' E.; Elev. 8,120'.
A town in the Kuhistan division of Yazd, situated in the plateau south
west of Yazd town, and few miles south of the Gardaneh 'Aliabad. It
contains about 150 houses, mostly built of mud and stone and surrounded
by a group of low, stony hills, on which are some ancient ruins with eutic
inscriptions which date their antiquity to 1290 A.D. There are a few trees
near and the village contains fruit gardens, cultivation, and corn-mills
worked by copious fresh water streams.
About 2 miles to the south are the celebrated quarries from whence the
Yazd marble is obtained. The quarries are situated on a hillside and consist
of up-heaved, nearly vertical, strata, running in a north-westerly direction
and with a slight dip to the south-west. A cutting has been made, 180 feet
long by 18 feet broad and 30 feet deep. The marble is exposed on both sides
of it. Its prevailing tint is a pale transparent lemon hue, but there are red
and white variations. There appears to be a vast quantity of the marble.
The deeper the excavation, the finer is the texture and the colour of the
marble, which, seemingly, is unusually transparent. The quarry is free
to anybody who likes to go and work it. The inhabitants of Turum
Pusht work at it as orders arrive, and are able to carve fairly well. The
marble is in great request for tombstones and large numbers of the latter,
formed of the marble, are to be found in the cemeteries round Yazd.
Roads run from here to "Ahabad, Deh Shir, Abrquh, and Deh Bala. The
country round is well-populated, and possesses excellent communications
and fair resources as a place of supply. (Vaughan, 1890.)
TUVAIJEH (Village) — vide JARRAHI (River).
TUVAISHEH— Lat. 30° 2' N.; Long. 49° 38' E.; Elev.
A village in Southern '’Arabistan on the left bank of the river Hindian,
1^ miles south-south-west of Shah Mir Nm’man and 5 miles south-south
east of the mouth of the river. It is inhabited by 100 Bahrakun Arabs.
There is a fine palm-grove here and some cultivation : a few horses, donkeys,
and cattle are owned. A post of the Imperial Persian Customs watches
the river at this place.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
TUWIKAT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the west shore of 'Abbadan island. It contains 8 mud huts,
and is inhabited by Drls.— [Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
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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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