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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎95r] (194/1278)

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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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BAF—BAG
89
have left and lead a nomad life, owing to oppression and excessive taxation.
The houses here lose the typical Persian domed style ; they are all flat-
roofed with thick rafters covered over with mud. The revenue of Baft
was, in 1894, 790 tumdns, but the Governor takes 1,000. There are 2
carpenters, 2 mechanics, 5 dyers and 4 felt-makers.
The revenue of the district of Aqta,’ with which Afshar is incorporated,
was 28,000 tumdns in 1903.
Five hundred to 700 mans of opium are grown here yearly, and the price
varies from Us. 4 to Rs. 10 a man.
A fair amount of supplies could be gathered here from the neighbouring
districts of Saidabad, Rabur and Jlruft.
The principal nomads of the district are :—

Taka Lu
. 30 families.
Kara Kuin Lu .••••••
. 150
Jabal Barizi ....••••
50
Sivandi ...••••••
£
. 100
Total
. 330
The Kara Kuin Lu are the remnants of the famous tribe from which spuang
the “ Black Sheep ” dynasty of Turkomans {vide also the article on the
nomad tribes of Kirman) .—{Brazier-Creagh, 1894—Sykes, 1902-06.)
BAG—
A Persian tribe now inhabiting the villages of Jimeh, Khush Ab and
Khushukan in the Dashtistan district of Pars. They were formerly the
masters of Borazjun, but were expelled by the Paparis about two genera
tions ago. They have now sunk to the level of ordinary cultivators. •
{Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
BAGH— Lat. 29° 42' N. ; Long. 50° 25' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Fars on the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
3 miles north-west of Sabz-Pushan and about 25 miles south-east of Bandar
Dilam. It contains 30 houses of Lurs and ’Arabs. Andld from the Kuh-
i-Bang passes close to the village. Colville says there is a well of good
water^here. There is a headland here called Cape Bagh, which is a very
remarkable scarped cliff, slate colour and red alternating, and fluted up and
down with horizontal marks along it.— {Colville—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
BAGHAK— Lat. 28° 54' 30" N. ; Long. 51° 9' 30" E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Fars, 9 miles west by north of
Ahram at the northern end of the Kuh-i-Mund coast range, and upon the
route from Bushire town to Ahram. It consists of 50 houses enclosed by a
mud wall, 8 or 9 feet high, with round towers at the corners, the whole
forming a'square enclosure. East of the village, tracts of wheat and barley
alternate with stretches of grass land. Wheat, barley, dates, water-melons
and fire-wood are the products of this place. The water is said to be
brackish. The inhabitants are said to belong to the Puladi tribe. There
is a good site for a camp here. Date palms number 500.—{Felly—Durand
—Butcher, March 1888—Stotherd, 1893—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)

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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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