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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎236r] (476/1278)

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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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CHA-CHA
229
Bakktiari IViats encamp there during the summer months. Supplies and
firewood are procurable.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
A winter settlement of the Shish BulukI Qashqals in the Ujan piain. ■
Graham, 1908.
CHASHMEH-I-GARRAU—
A spring of good water in the Shuslistan district of Ears, by the side of the
road from Talaspid to Pul-i-Murd, about half a mile from the latter.
(Grahame, 1908)
CHASHMEH-I-GHAR— •
A sulphur spring situated about 19 miles north-west of Shahpur.
{Grahame, 1908.)
CHASHMEH-I-GUMAR (CHAH-I-GUMAR)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A stream of drinkble water in Luristan, along which cane grows thickly;
met at 96 miles west of Dizful, on the road to Kut-ul-’Amarah.— {Sartorius.)
CHASHMEH I-GUMBAD KHATUN—
A spring in the south of Pusht-i-Kuh, not far from Changulak. The
water is yellowish, and is said to be impregnated with sulphur, of which
there is a strong smell in the ndld, at the head of which the spring is situ
ated.— {Ranking, 1909.)
CHASHMEH-I-HATIM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A locality in ’Arabistan, 1 or 2 miles south of Kaleh-i-Madraseh. There
is no habitation in the neighbourhood, and the locality is made out to
be very dangerous ar the striking-point of the raiding parties of the Taiyibi.
—{Lorimer, 1906.)
CHASHMEH-I-KHUNl, i.e., “the bloody spring Lat. Long. Elev.
A .valley in the Chehar Mahal province of Isfahan, where there is little
pasture, but wide spaces of white anemones.— {Stack.)
CHASHMEH-I-MARYARlD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A spring ten miles from Deh Diz on the Lynch road to Isfahan ; the spring
is below the road, where there are willows, small plane-trees, and a thick
oak forest situated in a rocky ravine. Temperature at 5 - 35 p.m. on 8 th
August 1903:— 25 8 4 1 ° F ( j—— {Burton, 1905.)
CHASHMEH-I-NARGIS I— Lat. Long. Elev.
The tenth stage (Ears), 165 mile^ south-east of Bushire, on the Busnire
Lar road, via Ehurmuj and Haftavan.— (Ross.)
CHASHMEH-I-RAUGHANl— Lat. . Long. Elev, 3,950k
Ranking gives elevation 2,110'.
A spring at the south-western extremity of the plain of Tuleh. in the lower
Bakhtiari country. It is usually made the 3rd stage from Shushtar, 87
miles, or 4th stage from Nasiri, 79 miles, by the Bakhtian caravan road
CHASHMEH-I-DUZD— Lat.
Long.
Elev.
Some springs between Rizabad and Asupas, Ears.— {Durand.)
N.B.—This is 'probably the same as the following.
CHASHMEH-I-DUZD AN— Lat.
Long.
Elev.

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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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