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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [176v] (357/1278)
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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BlDft ( 2 )— Lat. 29° 23' N.; Long. 50° 47' E.; Elev.
A village in the Haiat Baud district of Ears, 6 miles east by south of
Bandar Rig and on the coast road from Bushire to Bandar Dilam. It
contains 20 houses of Sunni Arabs, said to be Bani Taimwand and to have
come from Fallahieh, who own a few horses, some 30 donkeys and 30 camels.
Only grain is clutivated here.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BIDUN— Lat. 31° 24' N.; Long. 56° 1' E.; Elev. 7,000'.
A village of Yazd in the Kuh Banan district. It is 5 miles to the right
of the road from Kuh Banan to Yazd, being about 8 miles direct from
the former. The village is on the side of a mountain and is surrounded
by orchards.— {Stock.)
BID VARlUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in Kirman, about 36| miles from Saidabad, on the road
to Kirman. It is in good repair, but has only accommodation for mule
teers. Water is obtainable from a spring, and also from a small irrigation
channel by the roadside, a little to the south of the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.—
{Dobbs, April 1902.)
BIHABAD (Kirman)—Lat. 30° 43' N.; Long. 56° 34' E.; Elev.
A village about 43 miles from Kirman, on the road to Yazd by Bafq.—
{Abbott.)
BIJARD— Lat. 29° 53' N. Long. 56° 35' F.; Elev.
A villag in Kirman, near Mashiz {q.v.).
BIJAYAND—
A tribe in Kirmanshah, situated to the west of Hulallan or Halllan.—
{T. C. Plowden.)
BIJNAWAND—
Name of a tribe in Luristan {q.v.).
BlKNU (Bikui ?)— Lat. 27° 53' N. ; Long. 55° 14' E. ; Elev.
A village in Laristan, 104 miles south-west of Daulatabad and about 80
miles north-east of Lar on the direct road between the two.
It consists of 300 houses with a considerable amount of cultivation.
Supplies are procurable in moderation. •
Vaughan in 1887 as lying on the road between Furg and Hormuz. If
so, the above description appears to be an exaggeration of the true facts as
to the size of the village.— {Brazier-Creagh, 1894, from native information.)
BlLU —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Pars, belonging to the buluk of Kam Firuz {q.v.). It is sur
rounded by splendid crops. The village was sold in 1878 by Haj Nasrullah
Khan to the Mashlr-ul-Mulk.— {Durand.)
BIN ’ARBlD—
A large canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the
right bank of the river Jarrahi below Baiyuzl and within 1 | miles of Gha-
raibeh. It irrigates 60 fadddns of country cultivated by Khanahreh (Ka’b)
Arabs, who grow wheat and barley.—-(Pemaw 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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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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