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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [290v] (585/1278)
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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DEH—DEH
DEH KHANt—
A village in Kirman, situated about 3 miles to the west of the Kirman
Zarand road, about 30 miles from the former place.— 1899.)
DEH KHWAJA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 30 miles south of Bafq, lying on the road to Anar.—
{Sykes, 1894.)
DEH KUCHAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in the Kuh Banan district of Kirman, near Shaitur, on the
road to Bafq. It is surrounded by neat madder fields.— (Stack.)
DEHKUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village, some 5 miles from the north-east point of the island of
Shaikh Shu’aib,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. It has no trees, and contains 40 houses.
The people own 10 fishing-boats, 5 cattle* and 60 sheep and goats.—
(Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,, 1908.)
DEH KUHNEH— Lat. 29° 23' N.; Long. 51° 3' E. Elev.
The village contains about 250 houses.— (Chick, 1910.)
The principal village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, and the resid
ence of the Khan, who is the ruler of the district. It is situated on a
plain about 15 miles north-west of Borazjun, and f mile from the foot
of the southernmost range of the coast range at this point, called TavLseh y
the defences consist of 1 or 2 insignificant forts built of stones and
mud. The inhabitants are about 1,500 persons of the Haijab and Kha-
javan tribes, speaking Persian. Deh Kuhneh is the trade centre of the
Shabankareh district, but depends chiefly on the cultivation of wheat,
barley, and dates. Bad and scarce water-supply from shallow wells. Rain
water pools about February. There are about 20 horses and 400 donkeys,
besides some camels, and a regular caravan track exists between this place-
and Shif.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908 — Bailward, 1905.)
DEH KUlGH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in northern ’Arabi'itan, 9 miles south of Dizful, on the east
side of the Diz river. It contains 30 houses and a small fort, and has a
fighting population of 80 agriculturists who are Naisi (A1 Kathir) Arabs,
subject to Shaikh Haidar, and a few Kurds. They own 3 rifles. Water is
obtained from the river Diz by the Sharafabad canal. Wheat, barley, rice,
beans, kunjid, and indigo (the last for seed only) are grown. Donkeys,
buffaloes, cattle, and sheep are owned.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
DEHLIZ —Lat. Long. Elev. 5,740'.
A very stony pass in Khuzistan, crossed between Nasrabad and Badamak
on the Khurramabad-Dizful road. There is a small spring at the foot of
the pass.— ^Schindler.)—See Dallch.
DISH LURAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain and mound in Luristan on the borders of northern ’Arabistan,
some 40 miles west of Dizfiil, on the road to Kut-ul-’Amareh, and about
103 miles south-south-east of Deh Bala on the road thence to Dizful
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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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