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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [238v] (481/1278)
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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CHE—CHE
no fixed population. Good and plentiful water is obtained from a
qandt. — (Vaughan, 1887.)
CHEHAR BANlCHEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small group of IMt tribes (Ears) who periodically visit a locality
called ‘ Bun Rud in which are found the sources of the Kara Aghach
river. They comprise the Rural, i.e., Bunui, the Zanganeh, the Ardashir,
and the Vanda. The two former belong to the Lak tribes, and the latter
two are Lurs. The Chehar-Banicheh generally join the QashqaL— (ifoss.)
See under Kuhgalu, also under Buir Ahmadi, Dushman Ziari, Churam
Nuyi, and Bavi. One of the groups, of Kuhgalu tribes (q.v.).
CHEHAR BAZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined village in Ears, 4 miles north of Fahllan, amidst well-cultivated
fields— (deBode).
CHEHAR BIRKEH— Lat. 27° 39' N. ; Long. 54° 45' E.; Elev. 2,180'.
A large serai, 11 stages from Bandar ’Abbas, on the road to Lar. Water
from 4 cisterns ; supplies scanty from village of ’Aliabad (9), 1| miles north
( of serai. No population. The road to Furg from Lar diverges at this
point via ’Aliabad.
CHEHAR BEHMISHK—
A spur of the Kuh-i-Gach (2) (q.v.) to the east. It derives its name
from the numerous springs which rise in these hills.— (Craufurd, 1910, jrom
native information.)
CHEHAR BURJ— Lat. 29° 21' N. • Long. 51° 7' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, situated at the south-east
corner of the district close to the right bank of the Rudhilleh stream. It
contains 60 houses inhabited by Persians, a small fort, and three towers.
The villagers grow dates and cereals, and own 80 donkeys.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHEHAR BURJ—
Situated on a mound about 40 feet high, | mile to the west of the
telegraph line from Deh Kuhneh to Bandar Rig. 40 houses. Population
100. Rifles 15. Live-stock 150. Water collected in db-ambdrs. Crops
bdrdni.—(Sultan Muhammad, 1909.)
CHEHARDANG— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village near the eastern border of Ears, about 24 miles south-east
of Deh-Khair, situated in a narrow valley.— (Preece, 1884.)
CHEHAR DANK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A name given to small, tunnel-like openings, or dykes, in the dam con
structed in former years across the new river at Shushtar, the present Gargar.
These dykes were constructed in such a manner that two-sixths of the
water flowed east, four-sixths west of the town. Hence the appellations
Du Dank and Chehdr Dank. — (Schindler — Layard.)
CHEHAR DEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
The ruins of a village north-west of the Gudar-i-Balutak, lying in a basin
reached after leaving Kaleh-Madraseh on the caravan road from Isfahan to
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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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