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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎87v] (179/1278)

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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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ATI—AUR
ATABEG— Lat. 30° 37' N. ; Long. 53° E. ; Elev.
A village in the Marvdasht plain of Ears, some 10 miles south-south
east of Khur. It is situated on the southern side of the valley of the Band
Amir river near the hills and contains 30 houses.—{Hopkins, 1903:)
ATABEG JADEH (Road) or JADEH-I-ATABEG—
Name of a route from Malamlr in Khuzistan, to join the Isfahan road
near Qumisheh by Falard.— {Mackenzie.)
ATAISH— Lat. 30° 42' N.; Long. 49° 8' E. ; Elev.
A place with a ruined tomb in Southern Arabistan on the boundary
of the Fallahieh district, near to, and north-west of, Maqtu.— {Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
ATASH— Lat. 33° 37' N. ; Long. 46° 17' E. ; Elev.
A .small cultivated basin in the Pusht-i-Kuh division of Luristan, a few
miles to the south-west of Deh Bala. It is on the Ab-i-Tursak stream
shut in by steep hi\\s.—{Maunsell, 1888.)
’ATIBEH— Lat. 29° 18' N. ; Long. 51° E. ; Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Fars, north-west of Deh Kuhneh.
It contains 50 houses, inhabited by Persians, of unknown origin, who cul
tivate the ordinary cereals, and own 10 horses and 80 donkeys.— {Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
ATISHGAH or ATISHKADEH (1)— Lat. 28° 53' N. ; Long. 52° 31' E. ;
Elev.
The ancient fire temple of the Zoroastrians— Vide this Gazetteer—
•Firuzabad and T)eh-i-$h&h.—{Abbott—Stotherd, 1893.)
ATISH GAH (2)— Lat. 32° 38' 20" N. ; Long. 51° 27' 20" E.
Name of a mound rising 100' above the plain, 4 miles from Isfahan on
the road to Burujird.— {Schindler.)
Ussher describes the Atishgah, or place of fire, as a hill, 3 miles from
the city, on which are the remains of a fire temple, erected, it is said by
Ardashir, or Artaxerxes.
ATIAB SHAH-
A small caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). between Mahiar and Qumisheh {Trotter )
,’ATQlEH—
A section of the Ka’b tribe {q.v.).
’ATTAB—
A division of the Hamaid tribe {q.v.).
AUBARIK—
A small village on the road from Kirmanshah to Deh Bala, about 37
miles south-west of Kirmanshah. Water from tiy ex.—{Ranking, 1909.)
AURUK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village m the district of Yazd, 16 miles by road south-west of Taft.
It contains 10 houses and has numerous streams, gardens and shady walnut
trees about. Ihe fields are covered with large granite rocks and boulders,

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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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