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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎130r] (264/1278)

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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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BAK—BAL
12 ?
It consists of 10 houses, and has a qandt of slightly brackish water.—
{Wood, 1899.)
BAKLSH—
A division of the Mamassani tribe {q.v.).
BAKBABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Sirjan district of Kirman, a few miles west of Saidabad.
{Dobbs, 1902.)
BAKUM— Lat. 30°11' N. ; Long. 52° 5' E. ; Elev.
A small village in Ears, some 14 miles south-east of Ardakan town. The
village is walled and has a central tower, and round ones at the corners.
It belongs to a wealthy Shiraz merchant and contains about 100 houses.
It stands in a great, open, and highly cultivated plain. Water is plentiful
from a large stream, which also works a corn-mill.—(Fow/Ztaw, 1891.)
BAKULA— Lat. 29° 31' N.; Long. 50° 36' E.; Elev.
A village, 72 miles from Bushire on the road to Bandar-i-Dllam. -{Felly.)
BlLA DEH— Lat. 29° 17' N.; Long. 51° 54' E.; Elev. .—{Durand.)
A village in Ears, 15 miles from Jireh on the road to Kaziran. It is close
to the Rudkhaneh-i-Shirin. Abbott described it as a ruined village, outside
which the inhabitants were living under hiyas. Durand, however, in
1878, said it was fairly prosperous, with a good spring close by, which
supplies it with fair water.— {Abbott — St.John — Durand.)
BALAGHl (TANG-I-)— Lat. 30° 10' N.; Long. 53° 10' E. ; Elev. 6,100'.
A defile on the Shiraz-Isfahan post-road, in the province of Ears. It is
situated between miles 80 and 84, on the 4th stage from Shiraz, its north
entrance being 1 mile south of the Takht-i-Madar-i-Sulaiman. This is
the most picturesque portion of the road on that route. The gorge has a
width of from 200 to 1,000 yards. At several points where the high and
precipitious cliffs close on to the river (a tributary of the Pulvar) the road
has been galleried along the face of the rocks.— {Arbutknot, 1905.)
BAlA GIRlWEH—
A group of the Pish-Kuh tribes of Luristan. The tern! which signifies
“ those that live in the high mountains ” is applied to the following
nomad tribes living between the Kashgan and Diz rivers ; Sagwand,
Dirakwand, Judeki, PapI, and Bairanwand. They are homogeneous
to the extent that they have never accepted the rule of any individual,
nor pay taxes with any regularity, but the Sagwand and Bairanwand
are quite separate from the rest of the group. They were estimated
in 1836 by Rawlinson at 6,000 families ; Layard, 1846, made the same
estimate, and (if the Bairanwand be excluded as was done by both author
ities) the figure to-day appears to be the same, as far as it is possible to make
an estimate. The Saki tribe, formerly included in this group, is extinct*
'The Makan ’ AH tribe, formerly shown as one of this group, is now unknown ;
it was merged in the Sagwand many years ago. The Bajulwand tribe has
likewise ceased to be an independent unit.—(JE&foow, 1911.)

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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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