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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎292v] (589/1278)

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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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286
DEH—DEH
DEH QAID— Lat. 29° 18' N. ; Long. 51° 13' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears, 3 miles north-north-west of
Borazjun. It contains 200 houses inhabited by Borazjunis, Khishtis,
and the descendants of immigrants. The villagers own 40 donkeys and some
mules and camels ; their cultivation comprises wheat, barley, tobacco,
and dates. A son of the Khan of Borazjun resides here as the deputy of
his father. There is a large, but old and dilapidated, fort with 4 towers.
— (Felly—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
DEH RAHl— Elev. 1,250'.
A stony, flat plain, consisting in fact of an old river-bed, intersected by
salt streams, and about 1 mile broad, about 91 miles from Par Pas Dalun
on the Bandar’ Abbas Lar road.— (Wilson and Cruikshank, 1907.)
DEH RAIS— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Anar district (q.v.) of Kirman.
DEHRAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Ears inhabited by the Khul-i-Shuli clan of llidls. — (Mclvor.}
DEH RAMIR— Lat. 30° 11' N.; Long. 51° 47' E.; Elev.
A small village in the Shulistan district of Ears on the road from Beh-
behan to Shiraz, some 67 miles north-west of the latter town and 1| miles
south of the road between the Pul-i-Murd and the Tang-i-Rudian. It
contains 6 houses. The inhabitants own some sheep and goats and grow
a little wheat in the valley. There is plenty of grass and timber here ;
the hills are covered with a forest of small oaks. In the ndld is a small
trickle of water.— (Hopkins, 1903.)
DEH RAS— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the BulagI plain, north of Shiraz, in Ears.— (MacGregor.)
A village in Yazd near the southern entrance of the Gardan-i-’Alia bad,
and 91 miles south-south-west of ’Aliabad (3).— (MacGregor — Newcomen,
1905.)
A village in the centre valley of the island of Shaikh Shu’aib, Persian
Gulf. It contains 20 houses. Resources are :—8 fishing-boats, 5 donkeys,.
5 cattle, and 50 sheep and goats. There are no dates.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
DEH-RIZ or DIRIS— Lat. 29° 41' N.; Long. 51° 39' E. ; Elev.
A small village in Ears, 7 miles north-east from Kamarij, 7 miles from
Kazarun. All the houses have arched roofs. Though now a small place
it must once have been a large town, judging from the extent of the ruins.—
— (Clark — Ouseley — Morier.)
DEH RUD (St.John’s Map) — Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 75 miles from Bushire, on the road by the Haft Mulla
pass to Firuzabad. It has a fort and 250 huts, and water is procured
from wells.— (Felly.)
DEH RISHK— Lat.
Long.
Elev.
DEH RIZ— 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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