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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎396r] (796/1278)

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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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HAFT RAHAN KCH. —Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of hills in the Bakhtiari mountains in Luristan.— {Layard.)
HAFT SHUGAN— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,800'.
A large village on the Chehar Mahal plateau in the Bakhtiari country.
It is situated at the foot of the pass of the same name (10,000 feet) over the
Chari range on its north side, leading from Junaqan to Deh-i-Kurd, from
which latter place it is distant about 8 miles. The village contains some
2,000 inhabitants, with a considerable amount of cultivation surrounding
it, supplies of all sorts besides some 800 mules. Water from a stream
which runs into the Ab-i-Jehan-Bin near Takun.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
HAIAT DAUD District—
Extends from Chahrusehi down the Rud Shur to the sea, about 16 miles :
about 16 miles north across the Mahur hills : about 36 miles along the sea
coast to the village of Bang, in the Kuh-i-Bang, near the sea. Its western
boundary is the Kuh-i-Bang till these mountains reach the Mahur hills
at Shul, and then across them for 12 miles, or about 21 miles altogether
from the sea. The northern boundary lies along the track of the moun
tain ranges, and separates the Kashkuli section of the Qashqai from the
coast. Population about 8,000. 30 villages. Riflemen about 1,500,
though in a year of plenty more rifles could be purchased. The armed
forces at the disposal of Haidar Khan of Haiat Baud are estimated at 1,500
to 2,000 tufangchis in normal times. In May 1909 Haidar Khan des
patched some 400 armed men to Bushire to assist the Daria Begia in his
expedition to Tangistan. Haidar Khan can also dispose of the armed forces
of Rud Hilleh, some 700 tufangchis, as well as the contingents of Ganaveh
and Liravi, numbers unknown. Haidar Khan afforded courageous
personal assistance to the British Resident and to H. M. S. Highflyer in
arresting pirates at Ganaveh in 1908.— (Chick, 1910.)
Murad Khan (of Haiat Daud).
Hussain Khan.
Murad Khan
(killed in fighting Liravis about 1865).
Khan ’Alt Khan
(of Haiat Daud).
Haidar Khan
(Haiat Daud).
Husain Quli
CBud Hilleh).
|Allah Karim Khan.
Murad Khan
(of Dilam).
Muhammad Khan
(Chahrusehi).
Husain Khan
(Dilam).
Daughter
(married to Ahmad
Khan of Ganaveh).
Abdul Husain Khan.
(Ganaveh).
Ahmad Khan.
Khan ’Ah Khan,
Daughter (married to
Allah Karim Khan).
(Chick, mo.)

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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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