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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [294r] (592/1278)
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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St. John says it is situated in a wed-grassed valley of the same name,
plentifully sprinkled with bushes y about 95 miles south-west of Shiraz,,
on the road to Bush ire via Jireh.
DEH RUM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 63 miles from Kangan on the road to Ffruzabad, from
which it is 33 miles distant. It is situated at the foot of high mountains.
There are some date-groves near the village. There is a stream of brackish
water here, but sweet water is procurable from wells.— {Jones.)
DEH SATDl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet 3 miles north-west of Kirman, on the road to Yazd via Zarand.
— {Sykes, 1894.)
DEH SHAH HUSAINI—
A village in the Fehlian valley about 2 J miles south-east of Talaspid.—
{Grahame, 1908.)
DEH SHAIKH (1)—Lat. 29° 38' N. Long. 52° 14' E. ; Elev. 5,450'.
A village in Fars, 1 mile north of the road from Shiraz to Biisbire and 21
miles west of the former town. It is also called Kaleh Mushl. The village
has strong masonry walls and a grey mud fort.— {Irotteer—Stack — 1. B —
Q. M. G. — W. 0., 1881, 'part 2 — Newcomen, 1905.)
DEH SHAIKH (2)—Lat. 28 c 12' N. ; Long. 56° 35' E. ; Elev.
A village in Kirman, 14 miles south-west of Daulatabad, on the direct
road to Lar. It consists of some 200 houses with cultivation and date-
groves, while supplies and good water from the Rudkhaneh-i-Gushk are
procurable.— {Brazier-Creagh, 1894, from native information.)
DEH SHUTURAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A group of villages, situated on the boundary between the provinces of
Kirman and Yazd (but chiefly in the latter territory), on the road from
Pariz to Shahri-i-Babak.
Borax is found in the neighbouring hills, and was being worked in 1902
by the Persian Bank Mining Rights Corporation.— {Sykes, 1902.)
DEH SURKH—
A village in the Isfahan province, situated in the north-west corner of the
valley south of Kutal-i-Urchin through which the Shlraz-Isfahan road runs,
and north of Mehiar. Good water from 3 karizes ; rations for a brigade
(November).— {Howe, 1906.)
DEH TANGEH (Kirman)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village under the mountains, 3 miles distant from the road leading from
Yazd to Kirman, at a point in it about 41 miles distant from the latter
place.— {Abbott.)
DEHUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Bastak district of Laristan, 20 miles from the Bastak on
the road to Furg. It contains about 100 inhabitants.— {Vaughan, 1887.)
Pt. I
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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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