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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [224r] (452/1278)
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
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grain and tobacco are grown, and the villagers own 30 horses, 100 donkeys
and 500 sheep. A deputy of the Khan of Haiat Baud has his residence
here.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAHRUSEHI—
The residence of Muhammad Khan, brother of Haidar Khan of Bandar
Rig.— (Chick, 1910.)
CHAH SABZ—
A well in Ears just below the watershed which forms the Fars-Kirman
boundary, on the Niriz-Saidabad road, between Bishneh and Khairabad.
—(Dobbs, 1903.)
CHAH SHILABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined village site in Ears with a well, passed on the Niriz-Saidabad
road between Bishneh and Khairabad, about 13 miles from the former.
(Dobbs, 1903.)
CHAH TAHL—
A village in the Liravi district of Ears, administratively dependent on
Bandar Dilam. The residence of the Khan of Liravi is here. It is 9 miles
east of Hisar and contains 70 houses of Lurs. Wheat and barley are grown,
and the inhabitants own 20 horses, 100 donkeys, 70 cattle and 1,000
sheep and goats.— (Layard—Persian Gidf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH TALKH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A serai, the first stage (18 miles) south of Shiraz, on the Shiraz-Jehrum
road. Water obtained from large cisterns ; grazing poor ; fuel scarce ; no
supplies. This is from native information.—(BTfeow.)
CHAH TlR— Lat. 27° 54' N.; Long. 53° 27' 20" E.
A village in Laristan, 664 miles from Lar, on the road to Bushire. It con
tains a fort and some 60 to 70 houses, all of mud and stone, with about
200 inhabitants. There is some cultivation, irrigated from wells, the water
of which, though slightly brackish, is quite drinkable. Good grazing is
procurable, and also a fair supply of fuel from kundr bushes.— (Butcher,
March 1888.)
CHAH VIRAZUN (?)— _
Situated in Ears immediately north of Chah Kuh, about 15 miles north
west of Zaru close to the road from that place to Burneh Chah. Here
there are two wells of good water which has to be drawn by hand. The
water is 4 feet below the surface, and 7| feet deep.— (Howe, 1906.)
CHAH ZANGl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, 5 miles west of Deh Kuhneh.
It contains 20 houses inhabited by original Persians, who, in religion, are
Sunnis. Wheat and barley are grown, and the villagers own about 30
donkeys and 400 sheep. . The headmanship of the village is hereditary in
a Saiyid family.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
CHAK HUK— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,300'.
Four stages east of Shiraz. A small, square, mud fort with round corner
towers, with a few huts outside, containing in all about 200 people. Opium
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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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