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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎19r] (42/1278)

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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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AB-I-AB-I
13.-
Eight Bank.
Nahr Zawieh Bakhti&rl.
„ „ Shaikh.
„ „ K ila't rha.
,, Bunwar-Nazir.
„ ,, Kwaja Husain.
,, Jateh.
Left Bank.
Qanat Kumish Muminan.
Qunat-i-Gavdiil.
„ Bagh Gazir.
„ Hammam Kinar Ab.
,, Hammam Pilleh.
Nahr Bagh Saiyid.
,, Khan.
,, Iliasl.
,, Dahli.
„ Kuiangan.
,, Kutian.
,, Jibar.
,, Sharafabad.
Nahr-i-Kilmilak.
Villages and inhabited tracts.
Name.
• Position.
Nature.
Remarks.
Hiddeh .
On the right bank belov
A tract of land .
Also called Hadda-
Husainieh
Jirqeh Saiyid Muham
mad.
On the right bank, about
Ditto
meh; Kathir of
the Al Bu Nassi
dwell here.
Belongs to the
midway between the
Kathir tribe by
confluences of the
whose Bait Karim
Abul Bishr
Balarud and the ’Ajlrub
with the Diz; it ex
tends as far westward
as the Shaur.
On the left bank below
Ditto
Ma’aieh Al Bu
Nasir and Mahur
sections it is occu
pied.
Occupied by the
Umm-al-Wawi .
the ’Ajlrub and above
Deh-i-Nau.
On the left bank in the
Ditto
Bait Sa’ad.
Ditto.
Lira Kathlr
neighbourhood of Deh-
i-Nau.
On the left bank 5 miles
A combined fort
This was until very
below Umm-al-Wawi
and cdiamnserai
recently the head-
and 2 miles by land
built ot mud,
quarters of the
above Kut Bandar;
known also as
Shaikh Farhan
Shushtar lies 16 miles
Khaneh-i-Shaikh
Asad, one of the
north-east.
Far ban.
heads of the Ka-
Abur Ridha
Two miles from the right
An Im&mzadeh
thir tribe, but he
has now removed
to Deh-i-Nau.
Locally the name is
bank not far below
Kut Bandar.
pronounced Rida*
Bani Sa’ad of the
K a ’ b-as-Sitatleh
section dwell here.
Jajis .
About 2 miles from the
A mound .
The neighbourhood
right bank of the Diz
at a point about 10
miles below Kut Ban
dar.
is occupied by Bait
Sa’ad and watered
by the Ishareh
canal.

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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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