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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎314r] (632/1278)

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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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FAH—FAI 307
FAHVANDEH (or PAHVANDEH)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears in the plain of Marvdasht.—(MacGVe^or.)
FAIL— Lat. 30° 26' N.; Long. 49° 43' E. ; Elev.
A village on the left bank of the river Hindlan in Southern ’Arabistan,
1 mile south of Cham Kharnub. It is inhabited by 150. Fail! Lurs, who
grow cereals and own 50 donkeys, 50 cattle, and 30 sheep and goats.—
( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
FAILI—
This is the name applied to the Lurs of Pusht-i-Kuh. (See article on
Luristan.)
FAILlEH— Lat. 30° 28' N.; Long. 48° 3' E.; Elev.
A village in Southern ’Arabistan situated on the left bank of the Shatt-
al-’Arab, 3 miles above Muhammareh, between the Shatt-al-’Arab and the
right bank of the Abu Jidi canal. Failieh is the headquarters of the
Shaikh of Muhammareh’s administration ; here are the offices of his govern
ment, and here is quartered his mercenary force of about 400 armed Arabs
and Baluchis. The village has a small quay of date-logs in the angle
between the rivers, and about a mile up the Abu Jidi canal is a small dock
in which the Shaikh’s steamers are repaired. The Shaikh has at Failieh
about 20 brass and iron muzzle-loading guns, and his battery stands just
below the entrance to the canal. Below the battery is an orchard
and a young date-grove. Failieh is connected with Muhammareh town
by a private telephone belonging to the Shaikh. The village itself con
sists of about 300 brick, mud, and reed houses, with 12 or 15 shops ajid
two coffee-shops. The inhabitants are Muhaisin and mixed Arabs,
Baluchis and negroes. The principal buildings are, however, two palaces;
they are still occupied by part of the household of the Shaikh, but Khaz’al
Khan himself now (1905) resides in an imposing new mansion called Kasr-
i-Khaz’alieh, three-quarters of a mile farther up the same bank of the
Shatt-al-’Arab. Failieh was founded about 1860 by Haji Jabir, the first
great Shaikh of the Muhaisin Arabs.—( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
FAIYAZl— Lat. 30° 24' N.; Long. 48° 14' E. ; Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It contains 6 mud huts,
and is inhabited by Mutur (Muhaisin).— (Foreign Department Gazetteer,
1908.)
FAIYEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’Abbadan island. It contains 30 mud huts,
and is inhabited by Dris.—(Pem<m Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
FAIZABAD (1)—Lat. 31° 11' N. ; Long. 53° 25' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Abrquh district of Fars, near Shamsabad ( 5 ) and some
4 miles north-east of Abrquh town. Plentiful good water is obtainable
from qandts in the winter, but in summer it becomes salt and scant.
Supplies practically nil. — (Newcomen, 1905.)
FAIZABAD (2)—Lat. 29° 41' N. ; Long. 52° 56' E.
A weir or band over the Band Amir river (q.v.) in the Marvdasht plain
of Fars, 12 miles south-south-east of Khm.—(Hopkins, 1903.^

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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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