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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎53v] (111/1278)

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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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’ALl—ALl
’ALIABAD (18)— Lat. 29° 23' N.; Long. 55° 10' E. ; Elev.
A hamlet in the Sirjan district of Kirman, 29 miles from Saidabad, on
the road to Baft. It contains about 8 houses, and is surrounded by
gardens.— (Sykes, 1900.)
’ALIABAD (19)— Lat. 31° 21' N.; Long. 59° 59' E. ; Elev.
See Mihdiabad.
’ALIABAD (20)— Lat. 33° 6' 20" N. ; Long. 51° 7' E. ; Elev.
A small village of 12 houses, population 80, surrounded by cultivation,
about 50 miles from Isfahan and 11| miles from Bampusht on the road
to Burujird, belonging to the Zill-us-Sultan. There is one qandt; six pairs
of oxen for the plough ; 15,600 lbs. of grain are sown yearly ; taxes 40
tumans. — (Preece, 1893.)
’ALl AGHl SAIYID— Lat. 29° 52' N. ; Long. 53° 16' E. ; Elev.
A village of Ears, in the valley between the Marvdasht plain and Arsinjan.
(Preece, 1892.)
’ALl AKBAR KHlNl— Lat. 29° 33' N. ; Long. 52° 36' Elev.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and village near Shiraz, on road to Bushire.— (Ross.)
ALIANTAK— Lat. 31° 35' N.; Long. 54° 38' E. ; Elev.
A stage, 24 miles south-east of Yazd, on the road to Bandar ’Abbas.
There is only a well here with a little water, and no supplies.— (MacGregor.)
ALl ARAB-
16 farsakhs from Isfahan, coal.— (Allahverdiantz, 1891.)
,’ALl (BIRKEH)— Lat. 26° 38'; Long. 54° 52' E. ; Elev.
A place in the Lingeh district (q.v.).
.’ALl CHANGI— Lat. 28° 58' N.; Long. 51° 5' 30" E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 12 miles east by south of
Bushire town. It contains 50 houses, and there is cultivation of wheat,
barley and dates. The water here is good ; brushwood and some forage
also are to be procured, but no supplies. Dates palms number 2,000;
animals are 10 horses, 100 donkeys, 70 cattle and 200 sheep and goats.—
(Monteith — Clerk — Durand—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
.’ALl DAVESHI—
A village in the Bastak district of Laristan, about 43 miles west of Bandar
’Abbas, and 2 miles south of the road from that place to Lar. It consists
of about 10 houses containing some 50 inhabitants, who are Sunnis by
religion, and graziers and date-growers by occupation. Water is obtained
from wells and 2 cisterns. There are considerable date plantation in the
vicinity.— (Shakesjoear, 1905.)
.’ALl GALUMl— Lat. 26° 41' 30" N.; Long. 54° 53' E.
A house in the Lingeh district, standing in a small date grove, with a
well of good water, 84 miles from Lingeh, on the road to Bastak.—( Vaughan,
December 1887.)

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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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