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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎410r] (824/1278)

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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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HAT ARCfN— Lat.
HAT—HAW
Long.
Elev.
A small village north-west of Kirman, in the bed of the Yishi stream, at
the foot of the south slopes of Kuh-i-Zid Muhmud.— [Wilson and Cruick-
shank, 1907.)
HAUD-I-NAU— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,500'.
An Iliat encampment in the Bakhtiari country, 79 miles on the road from
Dizful to Kaleh Bazuft via Duma Khail, situated on the foot of the Kuh-i-
Manari range. No supplies in May, and water obtainable only from a few
springs, but fuel plentiful and grazing good.— [McSwiney, 1891.)
HAUZ-I-DAQQ— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,740'.
A serai and tank of sweet water in Kirman, 105 miles north-west of the
city of that name, 18| miles north-west of Khudabad, and 104 south-east
of Yazd, on the road between Kirman and Yazd via Zarand and Bafq. The
boundary between the provinces of Kirman and Yazd lies to the north
west of Hauz-i-Daqq, the next village beyond, 10 miles distant, Qudrum,
being in Ynzd.—[Sykes ; 1894.)
HAVINA— Lat. Long. E le v.
The fourth halting-place on the road from Kirmanshah to Mandali, via
Amaleh-I-vali. [See Aualeh). — [Gerand.)
HAVEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Mugui section of the Bakhtiari country, on a slight eleva
tion in the valley, 1 mile from the principal village of Kaleh Huma [vide
this Gazetteer). — [Sawyer, 1890.)
HAWALAT—
A division of the Hamaid tribe [q.v.).
HAWlZEH, (District)—
The westernmost of the districts of Southern ’Arabistan. It surrounds
Hawlzeh town, which is about 65 miles north of Muhammareh, and equidis
tant from the Karun river at Nasiri and the Tigris at ’Azair. On its northern
side it is bordered by two parallel hill ranges, called Minlur and Misdakh.
The limits of the district are otherwise indefinite. As one porceeds from
Nasiri to Hawizeh, extensive wheat and barley cultivation by hamlet com
munities dependant on Hawizeh commences some 15 miles east of that
place and extends intermittently up to it. Similar cultivation extends
again intermittently from Hawizeh to Shu’aib ; in fact the whole country,
comprised approximately in a triangle formed by lines joining Hawizeh,
Shu’aib and Kish-i-Basri is regularly occupied and cultivated in patches
more or less frequent and extensive in proportion to the rainfall by the Arab
tribes of Bani Salih and Bani Sakain, dependant on Hawizeh and Shu’aib.
Although mainly dwellers in tents these can hardly be recognized as nomads
in the'-'sense that the Kashgai are nomadic, but must rather be looked upon
as settled inhabitants. In the winter they spread themselves all over the
tract in small tent dwelling communities—families or clans pasturing their
flocks and cultivating the land around them. As soon as they have gathered
their harvest, in the month of May and sold or stored their produce, they
break up their encampments, and while a proportion remain with their

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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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