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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎348r] (700/1278)

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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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The village of Gabandi are divided into four political groups known as
Harami, Maliki, Nasuri and Tamiml. The Harami villages lie on the south
side of the valley from both above and below Chah Mubarak, and on the
north side from Chah Mubarak to the sea ; the Maliki are mostly on the
south side of the valley below Chah Mubarak ; the Nasuri form a cluster
below Gabandi village ; and the Tamimi occupy the north side of the valley
immediately above Chah Mubarak.
The following table gives the villages :—
Name.
Position.
Horses, resources, etc.
HaramI Villac
JES.
Askar (Bu) .
6 miles west-north-west of Chah
Mubarak on the north side of
the valley.
80 houses, 4 camels, 4 donkeys,
90 cattle, 600 sheep, 1,300
date-palms, 10 wells.
Bazbaz
2 miles west of Deh Nau on the
north side of the valley.
50 houses, 30 donkeys, 70 cattle,
1,500 sheep, 3,000 date-palms,
2 springs and 3 wells.
Deh Nau
9 miles west-north-west of Chah
Mubarak and 5 miles from the
mouth of the valley on the
north side of the valley.
70 houses, 3 camels, 50 donkeys,
45 cattle, 800 sheep, 3,000
date-palms and many wells.
Ghuwairizeh
Some distance to the east of
Kashkunar.
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50 houses, 6 camels, 40 donkeys,
40 cattle, 500 sheep, 700
date-palms and 8 wells.
Kashkunar .
6 miles south-east of Chah Mu
barak on the south side of
the valley.
425 houses, 60 camels, 500 don
keys, 900cattle, 5,000 sheep,
16,000 date-palms, 5 water
reservoirs and many wells.
Khiaru
4 miles west-north-west of Chah
Mubarak on north side of
valley.
120 houses, 10 camels, 60 don
keys, 100 cattle, 1,600 sheep,
4,000 palms, 14 wells.
Khund
A mile east of Tang Sharzeh at
the foot of Sharzh hill.
260 houses, 15 camels, 130 don
keys, 280 cattle, 3,000 sheep,
15,000 date-palms, 2 springs,
30 wells.
Sarvbash
1| miles west-north-west of
Kashkunar.
110 houses, 6 camels, 40 don
keys, 500 sheep, 3,500 date-
palms, 3 reservoirs and 25
wells.
Tang Sharzeh
2 miles east of Deh Nau .
10 houses, 15 donkeys, 35 cattle,
500 sheep, 2,500 palms and 3
springs.
Tumbii
2 miles south-west of Chah
Mubarak.
70 houses, 3 camels, 25 donkey s
40 cattle, 800 sheep, 1,60 G
palms and 14 wells.

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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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