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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎468v] (941/1278)

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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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JUD—JM
JUDEKl—
Name of a tribe in Laristan (q.v.)^
JUFAR—
A village in Kirman, inhabited by Guebers, close to the town of Kirman.
— (Khanikoff.)
JCGAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Laristan, 57 miles from Lar, on the road to Jehrum, from
which it is 36 miles distant. It is a large village situated in an open country;
water is procured from wells. There are many date-groves here, and much
tobacco is cultivated.— (Jones.)
This is probably the same place at Juium (q.v.).
JUIUM— Lat. 28° 6' N. ; Long. 53° 46' E.
The headquarters of a district subsidiary to, and forming part of, the
domains of the Khan of Lar : now governed by Husain ’Ali Khan, son of
Shaikh-us-Nizam Khan, brother of the Khan of Lar. It has about 50
houses, but a large area of cultivated ground is tilled by the inhabitants,,
and considerable supplies are available ; water from irrigation cuts from
Kuh-i-Bazan ; fuel scarce. It is situated on the north edge of the Banam
plain, Banam being plainly visible due south (not as on the map). To the
north the steep foothills of Kuh-i-Albard are 2 miles distant.
Roads diverge in all directions across the plain, and to Banam, Jehram,
and Darab.— (Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907.)
JULAKl— Lat. 30° 47' N. ; Long. 50° 3' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Behbehan province of Ears, 5| miles south-south-east of
Jaizan, on the road between Ramuz and Behbehan town. It contains
10 mud houses. All travellers must take a Bakhtiari guard from here to
cross the hills to Behbehan. The guard house is 1 mile beyond the village.
— (Hopkins, 1903.)
JUMBARAZUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, situated in the Deh Bala valley (q.v .)—
(Vaughan, 1890.)
JUNAGAN (AB-I-)— vide BEHISHTABAD (AB-I-).
JUNAH— Lat. 27° 4' N. ; Long. 54° 22' E.; Elev.
A village of 300 houses, 50 miles north-west and by west of Lingeh.
Revenue 700 tumdns. Livestock are : 200 donkeys, 500 cattle, 4,000 sheep
and goats. Cultivation : barley and onions. Water from numerous birkehs.
Fighting men, 250.— (Sher Jang, 1902.)
JUNAQAN— Lat. 32° 10' N. ; Long. 50° 48' E. ; Elev. 6,600'.
A village in the Chehar Mahal district of the Bakhtiari country, at the
eastern end of the Nuzdaj plain. It is situated in a plain or valley of the
same name near the foot of the Chui range on its southern aspect; facing
it to the east is the great rocky mass of the Kuh-i-Shaikh ; while the great
Saldarun range encloses the plain to the south-west. Midway between
the village and the last range the Ab-i-Junaqan drains the valley to escape
eventually through the great rift of the Tang-i-Darkash Warkash, 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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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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