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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎415v] (835/988)

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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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1035
ZAR—ZAW
ZARQAN (G ARDANEH-I-) —Lat. Long. Elev. 6,350'.
A pass between Bajgah (2 miles) and Zarqan on the Sbiraz-Isfahan post
road.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
ZARREII — see Gardan-i-Zarreh.
ZARR1N— Lat. Long. Elev.
A stream in the north-western Bakhtiari covin try, tributary to the Zindeh
Ruh which it joins above the Tang-i-Gaz. Its valley is flat and rich-looking
bordered on the north by low-lying mud hills, at the foot of which winds
the stream, shallow, and 20 feet wide among reed beds and meadow banks.
— [Sawyer, 1890.)
ZARRIN CHASHMEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
Or the plain of the “ Golden Fountain ”, is a high and beautifully green
plain with abundance of pasturage for cattle, mares and mules. It is situ
ated east of the Zardeh Kuh range, in the west of the Chehar Mahal
district due west of Isfahan.— [Stack.)
ZARU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village fort in the district of Yazd, 18 miles south by west of
Nadushan. Water is procurable here.— [Vaughan?)
It is situated on a tableland, with cultivation to the west of the village.
Supplies practically nil’, good water from a qanat .— [Howe, 1906.)
ZARUTl—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan [q.r>.).
ZARZAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, containing 700 to 800 inhabitants, in Khuzistan, about 30
miles from Behbehan.— [Monteith.)
ZASNAK —Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Luristan on the Dizful-Zuhab road.— [Rawlinson.)
ZAWIEH—KAREN River.
ZAWlEH BAKHTIARI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern 'Arabistan, about 8 miles south-west of Dizful and
west of the Diz river. It contains some 80 houses and 2 forts, and its
inhabitants are two-thirds Dizfulis and one-third Sagwand Lurs. Water
is procured from the river Diz.— [Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
ZAWlEH KHIZAR BAIGI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 8 houses of Sagwand Lurs in the Dashtistan district adjoin
ing Zawieh Muradi. There is a mud fort with timber roof, but the people
have no rifles. Irrigation is by a canal from Diz river: wheat, barley,
rice, etc., grown. The people have at present no livestock, having been
recently raided.—Pema# Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
ZAWlEH MURADI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern Wrabistan, about 8 miles south-west of Dizful and
west of the Diz river. It consists of 60 houses and 2 forts, the inhabitants
being Dizful agriculturists. Its water-supply is from the river Diz.—
[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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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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