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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [428v] (861/1278)
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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OBBHHI
422 HUS—HUW
easily procurable. Water from the river, brackish but drinkable. Tempera
ture in the dlvdn-khdneh of the house, 102 degrees.— (Maunsett, August
1888 .)
HUSAINIEH—
A place in Pusht-i-Kuh on the Ab-i-Ganjamchun, where the Vali has
a kaleh and a garden. It lies about 4| miles south by west of Amirabad.
— (Ranking, 1909.)
HUSHDANEH—
A plain in Luristan south-west of Deh Bala, and between the outer or
southern range of the Pusht-i-Kuh and the middle range. It is about 4 miles
in breadth from north-east to south-west, and of a length not exactly
known but considerably over 8 miles. Its elevation is from 1,500 to 1,800
feet: to the south-east it adjoins the Bahuravan plain, from which it is
separated by some broken ground and a low spur of hills. The Imamzad-
eh-Khaseh-’Ali is situated on its southern border, and its blue dome is visible
at a great distance. The plain forms a winter camping-ground of the
Fail! Lurs. The hills on the south side of it are bare, while those on the
north have a few small trees and a number of bushes. The centre of the
plain is covered with low bushes and there is grazing on the other parts.
There are always a few Lurs to be met with camped near the hills on its
north side near springs, but water is scarce during the autumn. Roads
runs across it to Mandall, distant about 45 miles, and to Kut-al-’Amareh,
distant 98 miles.—(F.)
HUSHUN— Lat. Long. Elev. 700'.
A fortified village in Kirman, 22 miles from Baft, on the road to Saidabad.
It stands amid orchards, and contains about 15 families. The water-
supply is good. A road branches off south-east from here to join the main
caravan track from Baft to Bandar ’Abbas. The Afshar tribe owns the
land is this district.— (Sykes, 1900.)
HUTKAN, KUH-I—
A range in Kirman and Yazd running north-west and south-east, and
separating the Zarand plain from the Kuh Banan district. Some thousand
feet higher than the Zarand plain is a long plateau, on the farther side of
which is a low range over the top of which can be seen the Kuh Daran.—
(Stack.)
HUVI—
A sub-section of the great Mamassan! tribe of Lurs in Pars.— (Baring. )
HUVIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village reported to lie at the foot of the north slopes of Kuh-i-’Avin,
5 stages from Guniz and 6 stages from Kuristan ; it is said to be connected
by road with Hormuz .—{Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907.)
HUWAIDI—
A division of the Salamat tribe (q.v.),
HU W AI SHI M—
A sub-division of the Bam Saleh tribe (q.v.) %
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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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