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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [71r] (146/1278)
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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’AQl—’AHA 65
Name.
Position.
Population and
arms.
Remarks,
Saiyideh .
—
120 houses and
15 rifles. Peo
ple are Saiyids.
Water from the Karun.
Owner, Shahah-us-
Saltanoh.
Shahin
%
300 houses and
35 rifles. Half
the people are
Saiyids.
Ditto.
Simaleh . *
About 15 miles from
Shushtar.
400 houses and
300 rifles.
There are a dozen shops
and a fine garden.
Date-palms 1,000 > .
Water from the
Karun.
Owner, Shahab-us-
Saltaneh.
Turk Khaliqi
✓
On the east side of the
Karun, miles below
Gutwand on the other
side.
500 houses and
300 rifl 3s.
Owner, Shahab-us-Sal-
taneh.
Waisi
Between Simaleh and
Turk Khaliqi.
100 huts of mix
ed Lurs.
A bunneh.
(Arbuthnot, 1905—
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer.)
AQTA’—
A small sub-division of Kirman, with the capital of Baft {q.v.). The sub
district of Afshar is for revenue purposes incorporated with it ; the revenue
of the two was, in 1903, 28,000 tumdns. — (Sykes, 1903.)
’ARAB (1)—
A principal tribe of Illats, including the clean Baser!, and ranging over the
tract of Ears from Mashhad-i-Murghab to Pamir (?). They number about
2,000 families ; they breed and keep about 200 mules, but have no herds.
(Ross.)
’ARAB (2)-7-Lat. 28° 52' N. ; Long. 52° 38' E.; Elev.
A village of Ears, 4 miles east of Firuzabad, situated on the right bank
of a river, about 200 above it on the hill-side. The chief cultivation is rice
Small supplies of cows, sheep and rice are obtainable. There is a plentiful
supply of water and a moderate amount of firewood is procurable. There
are some 40 families in the village. (Stotherd, 1893.)
’ARAB!— Lat. 28° 43' N. ; Long. 51° 21' E. ; Elev. 240'.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 13 mites north-west of Khurmuj,
situated on the road between Ahram and Khurmuj. Io contains 25 houses
of Mullas and Saiyids and 2 or 3 stone and mud tufangchi towers. Re
sources are 25 camels, 40 donkeys, 30 cattle and 1,200 sheep and goats,
also 2,500 date-palms. There are a few tobacco and sugar cane fields.—
(St. John—Butcher, 1888—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
Pt. I.
F
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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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