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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [404v] (813/1278)
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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HAN—HAR
HANASHK— Lat. 30° 49' N. ; Long. 53° 21' E.; Elev. 6,450'.
A village in Ears, about 15 miles north-north-east of Deh Bid. It is
situated on the left bank of a river, a little above the river bed. Plenti
ful water is obtained here, but no food supplies or fuel are available. There
is scanty grazing for mules and camels only. There is a good site for a
camp.— (MacGregor — Newcomen, 1905.)
HANDAMANl —Lat. Long. Elev.
A sub-division of the Pusht-i-Kuh division of the Fail! Lurs, who number
about 250 families and reside in the mountains to the north-west of
Kabir Kuh in Luristan, and sometimes near Khurramabad in the summer,
and on the plains at the foot of these mountains in winter.— (Layard.)
HANJA —Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village on the eastern borders of Ears, 1 farsakh from Khavre.
— (Vaughan, 1887.)
HANNA— Lat. 31° 22' N. ; Long. 51° 47' E. ; Elev.
A place in Ears inhabited by the Imam Quli Khan clan of Qashqai
Iliats.— (Maclvor.)
HANUT—t
A rivulet of Ears, 11 miles from Jam on the road to Lar. There is a
good camping-ground, water and grazing ; but no supplies of cultivation
are procurable and fuel is scanty.— (Butcher, 1888.).
HANZA —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Mian Kuh sub-division of the province of Yazd.— (Mac
Gregor.)
HARASAM— Lat. 33° 54' N. ; Long. 46° 52' E. ; Elev. 4,600'.
A valley between Kirmanshah and Deh Bala, some 45 miles south-west
of the former. The village of Harasam lies about 3 miles up the valley to the
east of the track between the above mentioned places. This village marks
the limits of the property of Hasan Agha of Kirmanshah, and also of the
settled sections of the Kalhur Kurds. In the hilly region to the south
east are the Akhur Lurs. There is a square fort with mud walls in bad
repair in the village. Crops of Indian corn, wheat, melons and fruits in a
large orchard, watered by a good spring, surround the village.— (Maunsell,
August 1888.)
(See Rabino’s Gazetteer of Kirmanshah.) “ Harasam ” and Harsin, pp.
88, 89, 92.
HAR AT (?) —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, west of Kirman. It is a fine village and the country
for some distance is covered with gardens and cornfields and well supplied
with good water.— (Gibbon.)
HARAT-I-KHURREH— Lat. 30° 3' N. ; Long. 54° 24' E. ; Elev. 5,885'.
A district about 40 miles east of Arsinjan on the way from Niriz to Deh
Bid. It is situated on the eastern slopes of the outlying spurs of the Ears
hills, and originally belonged to Ears but was handed over to Yazd. The
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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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