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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [274r] (552/1278)
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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DAS—DAS
267
it. The qandts, or irrigation channels, that formerly supplied these habit
ations with water, have fallen in or failed, and the whole of the people have
abandoned the district.— (Wells.)
DASHT-I-K0R— Lat. 29° 33' N. ; Lokg. 51° 11' E.; Elev.
A village in the Mazara’i district of Ears, west of the Rud Shirin and 6
miles north-west of MazaraT village. It contains 40 houses and a tower.
Wheat and barley are grown and date-palms number 500. —(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
DASHT-I-MUAK MUK (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small valley in Ears, about 2 miles long by f mile broad covered with
almond, wild olive, and mastich (pana) about half-way between Shiraz and
Firuzabad. A solitary fort stands in the middle, recently built for a
garrison of ten tufangchis, who cultivate a little wheat and receive precarious
pay. It is watered by a spring, which breaks out of a cleft in the rocks
a little to the left of the road to Eiruzabad, which passes through it. This
stream makes its escape at the farthest end of the dell, and beyond the
valley it falls into a ravine, under a huge, precipitous hill.— (Stack.)
DASHT-I-NAU— Lat. 32° 5' N. ; Long. 50° 53' E. ; Elev.
A village in Chehar Mahal district of Isfahan, 2 miles from the foot of
the Kuh-i-Sukhteh. It is about 16 miles north-west of Chigha-Khur,
situated on the bank ol a river of the same name in the Khiar plain. This
river originally comes from Gahrud, but receives great accessions from a
swamp at the foot of the Kuh-i-Sukhteh, half-way between this village and
Shalamzar, another village to the east, and on the left of the road from
Chigha-Khur.— (Stack.)
DASHT-I-SIAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in Ears, on the Firzuzabad road to Shiraz from Bushire, and
between the former and Farrashband, It is without villages, but the
nomads resort to it in winter on account of its mild and gareeable climate,
and the spring of good water which exist. Supplies of all kinds may be
readily obtained from the nomads.— (Jones.)
DASHTlSTAN (District)—
A district, natural and physical, rather than administrative, of the Ears
mainland of Persia, in the vicinity of Bushire ; its principal place is Borazjun,
situated exactly in the centre of the district and about 28 miles north
east of Bushire town.
Limits. —The length of Dashtlstan, from Blbara in the north to Chah
Kutah in the south, is about 30 miles, and its breadth, which is greatest
towards its southern end, averages 10 to 15 miles. On the south Dashtl
stan reaches to the coast opposite Bushire ; on the west it is enclosed by the
districts of Angall and Zira, and on the north-west by the district of
MuzaraT ; on the north-east and east it is bounded by hills of which the
Cisehkan mountain forms part.
Physical characteristics.—The whole of Dashtlstan, as its name— “ the
plainland ”—denotes, is a plain forming a slight declivity between the
mountains on the north-east and the seacoast on the somii-west, a cir
cumstance which determines the direction of the various streams and hollows
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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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