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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎402r] (808/1278)

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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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HAJ-HAL 395
HAJl’ALl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small serai, 1| miles west of Chehar Birkeh, on the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar
road. Water from 2 cisterns ; supplies scanty from village of Aliabad
(? v -) miles north-east of serai. No population.—( Wilson and Cruick-
shank, 1907.)
HAJIM —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Bardsir district of Kirman, about 10 miles from MasMz>
on the road to Bahramabad. It consists of about 50 houses.—(/%&*, 1900.)
HAJI QASIM BIRKAH-Lat. Long. Elev. 3,903'.
A small hamlet in Laristan, situated near the foot of the Tang-i-Lizdar,
about 27 miles from Lar, on the road to Bushire. It consists of a few shep
herds’ mat huts, and 2 cisteins full of good water.— April 1888.)
II AJI SALIH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass in the province of Ears, on the road between Bushire and Shiraz
by the Dashtistan plain, and about 60 miles from the former. It is described
as rocky and bad.— (Monteith.)
HAJl TUL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass in Ears, lying between Firuzabad and Dasht-i-Siah.—(Jones—
Ballard.)
HALAF (1)
A division of the Bani Salih tribe {q.v.).
HALAF (2)
A sub-division of the Bani Turuf {q.v.).
HALAF (3)—
A division of the Bani Tamim {q.v.).
HALAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A narrow and stony gorge, half a mile long, in Fars, traversed when
approaching Firuzabad from Shiraz.—(.Ross.)
HALAIGAN (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in Khuzistan in the Bakhtiari mountains east of Shushtar.—
{Layard.)
HALAIGAN (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass lying at the southern exit from the Malamir valley, a stream from
which traverses it. The pass runs from east to west and is a mile in length :
the eastern exit is 150 yards wide through rocky spurs running down from
steep mountains ; it rapidly widens to the western exit which is f of a mile
broad j the mountains to either hand rise to inaccessible cliffs in their upper
heights. A large stream traverses the pass, there being reed beds at both
ends : at the western exit there is a large area of rice in the valley and some
corn cn the adjacent slopes ; here also are ruins of unknown date and
facing the western exit is a village of Lur huts. The Halalgan valley is
broad and intersected by low spurs of limestone and marl : high mountains
surround it to the west and north.—(Burton, 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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