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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎21r] (46/1278)

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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
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AB-I-GARM (2)—
A small spring in Fars on the road between Javakan and Manjingon,
some four miles distant from the former.—-(.BZac&mfm.)
AB-I-GARM (3)—Lat. Long. Elev. 1,950'.
A little stream in Luristan running into the Karkheh river, crossed by the
road from Dizful to Zuhab, at about 139 miles from the former.— (Raw-
linson.) Rivadeneyra made a stage at the Ab-i-Garm, 93| miles from Khur-
ramabad, and 63 miles from Dizful. No supplies ; water plentiful.—
{Rivadeneyra.)
AB-I-GARM (4)—
A village, 12| miles from Varpusht, a couple of miles to the left of the
road from Isfahan to Burujird.— {Schindler.) Petroleum reported here.
{Allahverdiantz, 1891.)
AB-I-GlRUB—
Same as ’Ajlrub {q.v.).
AB-I-HILISAT, vide HILISAT (AB-I-).
Ab-ljargAh—
A river in Khuzistan, crossed by a bridge, 20 miles from Shushtar on
the road to Mangasht.— {Rawlinson.)
AB-I-JALAL—
A small stream, in the lower Bakhtiari country, which flows past Kaleh-i-
Tul and joins the Ab-i-Balawas near ’Ala Khurshid. It is almost dry for
several months of the year.— {Morton, 1905 Arbuthnot, 1905.)
Ab-i-junaqAn—
A principal source of the Ab-i-Behishtabad {q.v.).
AB-I-KANCHl— Lat. 31° 14' N. ; Long. 53° 20' E. ; Elev.
A well on the northern borders of Fars, 7-| miles north of Abrquh.—
{Vaughan, 1891.)
AB-I-KARIND, vide AB-I-CHANARAH.
AB-I-KASHGAN, vide KASHGAN RUD.
AB-I-KHlRSAN—
A winding stream, tributary to the Karun, in Bakhtiari country.—
{Sawy&r, 1890.)
Ab-i-kukat—
A stream draining part of the Diz valley and flowing into the Karun
{vide this Gazetteer—Karun river).
AB-I-KULAN, vide KARKHEH (River).
AB-I-LASHKAR, vide CHASHMEH-I-RAUGHANl.
AB-I-LURDiaAN—
A considerable river rising in the Bakhtiari mountains in the province of
Luristan in Janiki Sardsir, near the village from which it derives its name.
It is fordable in many places, but is generally narrow and deep, with well

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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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