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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [407r] (818/988)
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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YAZ—ZAF
1026
not present a serious obstacle to traffic. Water is obtained from the two
qanats 6^500 lbs. of grain are sown yearly; taxes 1,030 tumdns .— [Curzon
— Preece — Arbuthnot, 1905 — Wilson, 1907 — Cobban, 1907.)
YAZD-I-KHAST (2)— Lat. 29° 32' N.; Long. 53° 1' E.; Elev.
A small village in a bay of the hills to the south of the road from Shiraz to <
Niriz, about 20 miles from Shiraz.— {Dobbs, 1903.)
YAZD-I-KHAST (3)— Lat. 28° 16' 22" N.; Long. 54° 28' E.; Elev. 3,875'.
A large circular hauz, 50 miles from Lar, on the road to Darab, situated
in the Yazd-i-Khast plain, which extends eastward from this point for 13
miles, and westward as far as the eye can reach. This plain is the habit
ation of the Yazd-i-Khast Iliats who pitch their camp in one portion or
another of it, according to the state of the water-supply, but never entirely
remove from it. They possess 150 tents, with a population of about 800,
and can muster nearly 300 fighting men. The tribes own about 30 horses,
1,000 donkeys, 3,000 sheep, and 4,000 goats, which they water at the numei-
ous brackish chashmehs which abound.— {Vaughan, May 1890.)
YAZD PUSHAN— Lat. 29° 41' N.; Long. 50° 40' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Haiat Baud district of Ears, 10 miles north-east of
Ganaveh on the road between Deh Kuhneh and Zaidan. It contains 2 5 huts
inhabited by mixed Lurs. There are some donkeys here, and there is the
ordinary cultivation.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
YISHEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A seaside village in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
YISSAREII— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the river Shatait {q.v.).
YULI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Pars, 10 miles north-north-west of
Bardistan in the Bardistan valley. It contains half a dozen houses.—
{Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
YUSUEt—
A sub-tribe of the Ahmadi Bahmai, Kuhgalus {q.vi).
YUSUF WAND—
A tribe of the Silsileh group in Luristan {q.v.).
z
ZABBEH—
A division of the A1 Kathir tribe {q.v.).
ZAD MAHMUD, KUH—
A range of hills in Laristan, about 65 miles east-south-east of Lar, to the
south of which the Lar-Bandar 'Abbas road runs .—(Butcher 1888.) ’
ZAFADILEH—
A section of the Ka'b tribe {q.v .).
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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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