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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎466r] (936/1278)

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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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JAV—JAZ
459
It is said to contain 50 families ; the people call themselves Turks and have
that appearance. They are quite uneducated. The village pays a tax of
140 tumans a year to a relative of a chief of the Mazidi Arabs. It is every
where cultivated though there are no gardens.— {Blackman.)
JAVI Tribe — See BAVI.
JAZAR (?) JIZZEH— Lat. 26° 50' 0" ; Long. 53° 26' 45".
A village on the Laristan coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , a few miles south
of Nakhilu and opposite the isle of Bu Shu’aib. It is described as a con
siderable village, containing about 200 men of the A1 Bu Balal tribe,
and is subject to Nakhi.— {Bruchs.)
JAZlRAT FUR, vide FARUR.
Lat. (N. extremity) 26° 18' 51" ; Long. 54° 31' 2".
Lat. (N. peak—highest on island) 26° 17' 26"; Long. 54° 30' 38" ;
Elev. 465'.
Lat. (S. point) 26° 14' 53" ; Long. 54° 31' 23".
JAZlRAT MALGARAM (?)— Lat. 27° 50' 30" ; Long. 51° 38'; Elev.
A small wooded island off the coast of Fars.— {Bracks.)
JAZlRAT MALGASAB (MUKHAILA)—Same as NAKHILU.
Lat. 27° 51' N. ; Long. 51° 32' E.; Elev.
An island in the Persan Gulf off the coast of Fars. It is a low, narrow
island, about 5| miles long. Within is a narrow channel, with 12 or 14
fathoms, but blocked up at each end. You may approach this island
to 5 fathoms in the day and 7 in the night.— {Bracks).
JAZlRAT NABlYU FARUR [generally called by the Arabs NA-BIYU (?)]
—Lat. (Peak) 26° 7' 3" ; Long. 54° 27' 14" ; Elev. 120'.
Is an islet of circular shape, a little over J a mile across, in the Persian
Gulf. It has a remarkable dark-coloured saddle hill on its east side, 120
feet high, and visible 14 miles. The rest of the island is low, and has
brushwood growing on it ; it is without water and uninhabited, being only
occasionally visited by fishing-boats ; the peak is 24 miles south-south
west of Ras Bustanak. Anchorage bad ; that off the south-east corner,
l mile from the shore, is the best. Caution is required in passing
the north-west side as a reef of rocks, partly above water, extends from it
for more than | a mile. There are also small reefs on the west and south
sides.— {Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
JiZlRAT SIRl— see Sir!.
JAZIRAT-UL-KHIDHAR— Lat. 27° 50' W.—vide ABBADAN ISLAND
JAZlREH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Haiat Daud district of Fars, on the south side of a creek,
which runs inland for 1 mile from the sea. It contains 15 houses, inhabited
by Arabs who claim to be of Bam Hajir and Bam Tamim descent ; they
are Sunnis by religion, and speak Arabic, as well as Persian. They culti
vate their lands and catch fish ; their surplus produce the y send and sel 1

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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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