'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [226v] (457/1278)
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
Deh Bala has some sudden and abrupt descents, impassable for guns and
difficult for mules.— {Vaughan, September 1897.)
CHAM BURAKI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, to north of Shiraz (called Aiyub in St. John’s map).
It possesses plenty of water and corn crops. The well and groves of
Aiyub are a short mile distant, on the hill side to south. The village
order.— {Durand).
CHAM CHARATEH— Lat. 30° 22' N. ; Long. 50° 10' E.; Elev.
A village in the Zaidan plain in the district of the same name of Behbehan
province. .It is situated on the right bank of the river Hindian, and on
the right bank of the Lunjir canal 2 miles below Lunjir. It contains 700
inhabitants of the Shir ’Ali and Shahrul tribes, whose occupation is in the
cultivation of linseed, tobacco and beans. Resources : 250 cows; 250
donkeys ; 100 buffaloes ; 700 sheep.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905
— {Lorimer.)
CHAM DARDlKAl—
On the right bank of the Shahpur river, 60 houses. Population 150.
Rifles 10. Livestock 300. Cultivation of barley, wheat and jowdn. Water
from the river. Irrigation from the same. Some crops are bdrani.—
{Sultan Muhammad, 1909.)
Note—Perhaps the same as Cham Darvai.
CHAM DARVAI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, south of Deh Kuhneh and
near the Rudhilleh stream. It contains 40 houses inhabited by original
Persians, who cultivate wheat and barley, and own 50 donkeys.— {Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAM DARREH {i.e., “ The terraced ravine.”)—
A brook in the Chehar Mahal, which runs into the Zindeh Rud at its
entrance into the Dima valley.— {Stack.)
CHAM KHALlFEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Rudhilleh district of Ears, on the left bank of the Rud
hilleh stream, west of Muhrazi. It contains 6 houses of Bani Hajir and
Bam Tamim Arabs, who cultivate the ordinary crops, and ownga few
donkeys.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
CHAM-I-CHASHMEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A rivulet of Ears, 4| miles from Jam on the road to Lar, working a small
water-mill and flowing to the Riz.— {Butcher, 1888.)
CHAM-I-CHlT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in the Behbehan district of Khuzistan, the 3rd on the
Bandar Dilam-Isfahan road, about 64 miles from the former place.— {Ross.)
CHAM-I-GAZ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A good camping-ground in Luristan, 17| miles from Valmian on the Khur-
ramabad-Dizful road.— {Schindler.)
This is probably identical with Chaman-i-Gaz.
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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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