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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [220r] (444/1278)
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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CHA—CHA
213.
OHAH-I-SHIrTN-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Liravi, about 6 miles from Dilam. It has 20
houses of Lurs. Wheat and barley are grown and there are 30 donkeys,
20 cattle and 300 sheep and goats.— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CH AH-I-SM AN LU—
A halting-place on the road between Shiraz and \ azd, four stages
from the former.— [MacGregor.)
CIIAHJA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village of about 50 houses, at the foot of a haleh on the top of
a small limestone hill, commanding the whole plain and road between
Tihran and Tundaran on the Isfahan-Burujird road.—(Preece, 1893.)
CHAH KABU—
A well on the eastern borders of Ears, 30 miles north of Bishneh. It is
similar to the Chah ’Alam well [q.v.). The water is found 8 feet below the
surface and is fresh and plentiful.— 1887.)
CHAH KAZIMEH—
CHAH KHANl- Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Dashtistan about 2 miles west of Chah Arab!.
It consists of 30 houses of Borazjunls, and wheat and barley are grown, but
there are only about 200 date-trees : there are 100 donkeys.—(Pmmn
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH KUH—
A halting place in Ears on the road from Zaru to Burneh Chah, 14| miles
north-west of the former. No population ; only ajdiepherd’s hut with two
wells, one 3 | feet in diameter with good water, Tyfeet deep, the other con
tains’ slightly brackish water 9 feet deep. Immediately to the north of
Chah KGh is Chah Virazun [q.v.) where there are two more wells.—(Howe,
1906.)
CHAH KUGcA—
A small, deep well in Ears containing good water, passed about 11 [miles
from Bishneh on the road to Khairabad.—(Po 66 s, April 1903.)
CHAH KUNDAR— Lat. 28° 35' N.; Long. 55° 14' E.; Elev.
A small fort near the eastern boundary of Ears, 33 miles north-north
east of Furg. It contains two or three houses and a pond fed by a run
ning stream.— [Vaugham, 1887.)
CHAH KURAN -
A halting-place in Kirman on the road from BIrjand to Kirman, seven
stages from the latter place, with three or four wells of brackish water,
some of which are better than others. There are no inhabitants here.—
[Stewart.)
CHAHKUTAH— Lat. 29° 3' ; Long. 51° IF.
A large village and small district of the same name, bounded on the west
by the Bushire mashileh, on the north by Angal! and Dashtistan, on the east
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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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