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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [11r] (26/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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Ib b— ’AbD
5
A
AB BARIK— Lat. 29° 45" N. ; Long. 52° 38' E. ; Elev.
A small kdrlz of good water in Shiraz. A little camel-grazing is to be
had of qaz and adiLr. There are no permanent inhabitants, though the
graziers sometimes live there.— {Gibbon, 1908.)
’ABBASABAD (1)— Lat. 30° 25' N. ; Long. 53° 23' 15" E. ; Elev.
A village on the road from Bavanat to Deh Bid, 15 miles south-south
east of the latter ; and it is the first stage (6 farsakhs) from it on the road
to Wiris.— (Stotherd ; Blackman.)
* ABBASABAD (2)—La*. 32° 19' N. ; Long. 48 d 26' E. ; Elev.
A village in northern Arabistan, 7 miles south of Dizful and less
than 1 mile east of the river Diz. It contains 25 houses and some gardens
and is inhabited by Lurs of Sagwand and Dinarwand origin, and a few
Arabs, who muster a fighting strength of 80 men with 8 rifles. The inhabi
tants live by cultivation. Water is obtained from the river Diz.— [Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
* ABBASABAD (3)—Lat. 29° 13' N. ; Long. 55° 48' E. ; Elev. 5,260'.
A small village in Kirman, on the Bandar ’Abbas-Sa’idabad road, 22
miles south of the latter place. There are a few trees round the village
which can furnish a few supplies. There is abundance of good water from
a qandt. — {Napier, 1899.)
’ABBASABAD (4)— Lat. 30° 53'; Long. 55° 21'.
A village in the Anar district {q. v.) of Kirman.
’ABBASABAD (5)—Lat. 30° 28'; Long. 56° 50' ; Elev.
An old fort in Kirman, lying near the Kirman-Zarand road, about 22
miles from the former place.— {Wyatt, 1899.)
’ABBASABAD (6)—
A village in the province of Ears, about 13 miles south-east of Qumisheh,
on the road from Isfahan to Shiraz. Flour and barley for one brigade avail
able here.— {Howe, 1906.)
ABBASl— Lat. 30° 26' N.; Long. 50° 41' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Haiat Daud district of Fars, 8 miles north-east of Rig.
The village stands in a plain and is defended by three towers. It is inhabit
ed by Lurs and ancient Persian tribes and contains 100 houses. Some of
the dwellings, still inhabited, are said to date back to pre-Islamic times.
Dates, wheat and barley are grown, and the villagers own 30 horses, 20
mules, 100 donkeys, 70 cattle and 800 sheep .—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer,
1908.) ‘ •
.’ABBASl (BIRKEH)—
A place in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
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 636), 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.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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- 1 volume (635 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 637; 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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