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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎166r] (336/1278)

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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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BIZ-BEK
159
This river, which, at the point where they meet, has as great a volume as the
Karim itself, rises in close proximity to the sources of the latter. The
various streams or springs, from which the Bazuft has its origin, are the
Ab-i-Susan, Ab-i-Taraz-Mauri, the several Chashmeh-i-LirkI Khan, Khan-
Kushteh, Haft Tanan and, Gilishah ; all of these flowing down the southern
or western slopes of the watersheds of the mountains from which they
take their name. These unite in a main stream, after courses varying
from 20 to 40 miles, at a point about 5,500 feet above sea-lbvel. After a
run of a further 25 miles, during which many small streams join it, Kaleh
Bazuft (5,300 feet), an old ruined fort on the right bank, is reached. The
river is still fordable here. Passing then below the Gardan-i-Chari and
joined by the waters of the Ab-i-MasI and Ab-i-Muvarz, it pursues its course
past the overhanging Kuh-i-Isbianeh, and receives several additional streams
from the Gurab valley. At 70 miles it makes the only considerable bend
of its whole course, to clear the elbow of the mighty Garreh range, again
resuming its normal and almost straight course south-east, and running
through the deep valley between that range and the abrupt slopes of the
Kuh-i-Balut and Kuh-i-Malvarl. Below the latter it is crossed by the
Pul-i-’Amarat (for description see this Gazetteer, PuI-i-’Amarat), on the
caravan road between Isfahan and Nasiri, at 120 miles from the former,
and at 3,400 feet elevation. The bridge is a wire suspension bridge, built
.in 1900 by Messrs. Lynch Brothers for the Bakhtiari Khans. It is a neat
structure, 70 feet in length, supported by solid masonry piers and a lattice
girder, with steel roadway and concrete flooring, 10 feet in width. It
is laid about 160 feet above the level of the water, and kept in good order
by regularly applied coats of paint. The caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). at Shalil lies about
1 | miles distant from the bridge and the left bank. Up*to this point the
valleys through which the river has run are practically destitute of villages y
though it is said to have contained some 360 in the olden days_before the
•Afghan incursion. Just below the bridge it is joined by the Ab-i-Shalil,
a fair sized stream just fordable in parts. After a further course of some
12 miles, with a few hamlets on either bank, and a ford just above the
village of Raval, it plunges into the Karun near the village of Charkak,
elevation 3,050 feet. The total length of its course by its zigzags may be
set down at 120 miles.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
BAZVAND RAMIANI—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan (q.vS).
BEHA HASANI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Liravz district of Pars, containing 25 houses of Lurs.
There is a tower here. The crops are wheat and barley, and animals are 50*
donkeys, 30 cattle, 700 sheep and goats, and 10 horses .—{ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. *
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BEHBEHAN Town— Lat. 39° 33' N.; Long. 50° 28' E.; Elev. 1,300'.
A town in Ears, and the capital of the administrative division of the same
name. It is situated 128 miles west-north-west of Shiraz and 43 miles
north-north-east of Bandar Dilam, in an extensive plain watered by the
Kurdistan or Marun river, from the banks of which it lies 3 miles south.
Pt. I. **

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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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