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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎464v] (933/1278)

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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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458
JAV—JAV
Ho fuel close by, but there are many bushes on the hills near the roacb
The temperature in a large thatched hut on the 2nd August 1903 ranged
from 92° to lll°.—(Ramsden, 1902 \ Burton, 1903 \ Arbuthnot, 1905 \
Lorimer, 1906.)
JARZEH, or JIRZEH— Lat. (Tower) 26° 44' 15" ; Long. 53° 58' 10".
A small village on the coast of Lar, opposite the island of Qais. It has
a tower and date-groVe, and is situated in a bay, which affords shelter
from the Shimdl close in. There are 20 fathoms of water within a mile
of the beach of Jarzeh.— (Constable — Stifle—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
[Note.—This is probally the same as (q- v)]
JASAN-— Eat. Long. Elev.
A large village in Luristan, 8 miles south, 20 miles west, of Radrai. It is
celebrated for its date-groves. The soil here is favourable for the growth
of orange and lemon trees, and the land produces grain of Various kinds,
cotton, and hemp, but the vicinity is so exposed to the depredations of
Arabs that its inhabitants engage little in cultivation.“--(Ea?/ard.)
JASHAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Turkey iri Asia, 11 miles south-south-east of Kalki, at
the northern end of the Kuh-i-Darang. It contains 30 houses.— (Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
JASHNI—
A nomadic branch of the Khalaj tribe of the district of Ghunghri,
They reside in summer in the buluk of Sarchahan, and in winter in the
island of Ming in the lake of Bakhtigan.—(AlafoVm, 1915.)
JASIMl—
A small canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the right
bank of the river Jarrahi, with which it connects. It irrigates 50 fadddns
of country cultivated by mixed (Ka’b) Arabs, who grow wheat and barley.
*—(Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
JA’UDETL—
A section of the Na’b tribe (q.v.).
JAU-I-DAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Khuzistan, 67 miles south of Burujird, on the road to
Dizf ul.— (Mackenzie.)
JAY AZIN— Elev. 7,192'.
A village in Kirman, about 32 miles north of Shahr-i-babak, on the
road to Anar , containing some 20 houses.— (Sykes, 1894, from native
inforamation.)
JAVEHKAN— Lat. 29° 10' N. ; Long. 52° 37' E. ; Elev,
A village in Ears, 24 miles north of Firuzabad on the road to Shiraz, 13
miles south of Baghant (?) in a direct line ; there is also a fort. It is watered
by a stream, rising 4| miles above the village, which only has a few inches
of water in it and drives a mill ; there are also many springs on the road.

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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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