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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [69v] (143/1278)
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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64
’AQl—’AQl
Khans to the Persian Government is 12,150 tumdns in cash, 300 kharwdrs
of grain and 280 of straw.
The population of ’Aqlll is apparently about 15,000 souls.
The table below embodies all that is known of the prosperous villages in
the district :—
Name.
Position.
Population and
Remarks.
arms.
Bad|l
Near Muhammadibn-
100 huts of mixed
This is a bunneh or per-
Zaid.
Lurs.
manent encampment.
There are 100 date-
palms.
Batwand
About 30 'miles from
80 houses. There
Owned by the 8arum-
Shushtar.
are 20 rifles.
ul-Mulk, one of the
Bakhl iari Khans.
Dash t-i-B u-
9 miles from Shushtar
250 1 u + s. There
Water is from the river
zurg.
and 2 miles from the
are 50 rifles.
and from springs. The
left bank of the Karun.
proprietor is the Sha-
hab-us-Saltaneh.
IstagI .
Between Simaleh and
120 huts with
This is a permanent
Qaidan.
50 rifljs.
camp only, but it has
a strong tower. It
shares 2 water-mills
with Simaloh.
Kamari
Close to the left bank of
40 houses with 5
The people have a repu-
the Kaiun above Jal-
rifles.
tation as thieves. Be-
lakan.
longs to the Shal 5b-
us-Saltaneh.
Kangarp
On the river.
The people are £
There are 3 bunnchs of
Kangarpaz and
| descendants
of immigrants
from Shi.uz
this name.
Kuh Zard
7 miles from Shfbhtar at
120 houses and
Water is from springs.
the foot of the KGh
30 rifles.
Belongs to the Shahab-
kidalak and miles from
the Kaiun.
us-Saltaneh.
Makandawan .
Between Simaleh" and
100 huts of mix-
This is a bunneh.
Turk Khaliqi.
ed Lurs.
Mam! card
At the,foot of the gyp-
250 houses with
There is a good spring.
Muadanj
sum hills.
20 rifles.
Belongs to the Shahab-
us-Saltaneh.
Close to the river .
120'houses and
Belongs to the Shahab-
10 rifles.
us-Saltaneh
Qaidau .
Adjoins Rudani
60 houses and
Ditto.
Rahdaran
10 -rifles.
\bont 20 miles from
>1 fChtar.
200 houses and
15 rifles.
Water is from a spring.
Belongs to the Saruni-
ul-Mulk.
Rulani .
About 12 miles from
120 houses and
The village stands on a
SI ushtar and nearly op
12 rifles.
hillock and has a new
posite JallakAn.
fort. Owned by the
Shabab-us-Saltaneh.
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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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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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