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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [262r] (528/1278)
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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DAR—BAR
255
DARlA-I-PARISHAN or FAMBR—Lat. 29° 30' N. ; Long 51° 50' E
Elev.
An extensive lake in Fars, about 8 miles south-west of Kazarun town,
bounding the plain of Kazarun on the south-east and stretching westwards
to the Dasht-i-Barm range of hills. It receives the drainage of the Kazarun
valley. Whether it has any outlet on the east is not known. It is a long
narrow sheet of water stretching north-east and south-west.
Its water is said to be salt, but this is not known for certain • it is the
resort of innumerable wild-fowl, and excellent shooting is to be obtained
in the dense fringe of reeds and swampy flats in which it terminates - vide
also Kutal-i-Bukhtar. It is also called Daria-i-Famur. The village of
I amur is situated at its south-east Qx.tvem.\ty.—{MacGrecior—Curzon 1889 )
DARIA-I-QULl—
A river in Fars on the Bushire-Shiraz road, c/. 2 photos.
DARlAN (1 )—Lat. Long. Elev.
A canal in Khuzistan in the neighbourhood of Shushtar, said to have
been cut by Ardashir Babakan, to lead the water from the Karun into the
town and into the fields beyond, but this is improbable, as Ardashir would
have had his hands too full to find sufficient time for the work. But the
canal, as its_ name indicates, may have been one of the warks of Darius
the name Darian being a contraction of Darabian.—(Mmifc)
DARlAN ( 2 )—Lat. 29° 33' N. ; Long. 52° 57' E. ; Elev.
NMz V — 25 mil6S ° f ShiraZ ° n the r ° ad fr ° m Said abad via
DAR-I-CHlTU—L at. 29° 10 ' N. ; Long 0 13' E.
A village in the district of Dashtlstan, about 4 miles north of Chah
Kutah. It consists of 40 houses, half of Zanganeh and half of mixed
1 There Inn * 0 T here ' Wheat and barle y are g rowrl ; the animals
ZI gIZZt B ° Cattie ’ a,ld400 Shee P and
DAR-I-DAR—
, A hamlet in Kirman, about 12 miles from the village of Ariasib and 9 mfles
from Daviran, on the road between them. It is beautifully situated, and
looks across the Rafsmjan plain.—(AA-maw Political Diary 1904 )
BARIS— ''
Kazar 1 iin P Iain we ^ of that town. It was ruled by
udar Rajab m 1912, who had 100 tufangchis. The inhabitants of this,
village were said to have joined in the attack on the 39 th Central India
Horse in December 1911.—(Chick, 1912.)
DARISHK—
A village in Yazd between Deh-i-Shar and ’Aliabad, on the western road
from Shiraz to Y^.—(MacGregor.)
DAR-I-SHURAJEH—
A narrow pass through which the Zicdeh Efld enters the Linjan plain
south-west of Isfahan.— (Schindler.) J 1 ’
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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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