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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎486r] (976/1278)

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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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KAK-KAL
479
KAKURIA (River)—
Is crossed 18 miles west of Khurramabad by the road from Kirmanshah
via Harsin, which then ascends its left bank for some little distance. Just
below is Kaka Riza. At the point of crossing it is a stream rushing
over a bouldery bed 20 yards wide, with a maximum depth of 2 feet.
The banks are low and grassy. A mile higher up it is divided into
several streams crossed by bridges of woven osier. Where it flows
through dense copses of willows and other trees, a favourite ambush for
robbers, close by the road turns south through the Takatu pass.—(R).
KALA-I-RUSTAM KHANI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, about 8 miles south of Deh
Kuhneh. It contains 80 houses inhabited by original Persians. Wheat
barley and tobacco are grown ; about 1,000 Hashim mans of tabacco yearly
are exported to Bushire via Bandar Rig. The villagers own 100 camels
and 100 donkeys.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
KALAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the right bank of the Marun river, in the Hindian valley,
passed on the road from Behbehan to Gargari. It contains 1,000 inhabitants
of the Lur tribe and many Behbehanis, whose’occupations are cultivation
of dates, rice, and linseed. Resources : 300 cows, 250 donkeys, 20 horses,
2,000 sheep.— {Larimer.)
KALASFABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village and fort in Ears, about 2 miles from the lake of Nmz.~{Kinneir
— Abbott.)
KALASPAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain in Laristan down which the bed of the Ab-i-Zal river runs
near Tang-i-Zardavar.—( War Office Report on Persia, Part 11, Route 123.)
KALAT (1)— Lat. 29° N. ; Long. 53° 50' E. ; Elev.
A village in Ears, about 15 miles north-east of Fasa, near the road, thence
to Niriz.— {Stotherd, 1893.)
KALAT (2)— Lat. 28° 22' N. ; Long. 51° 12' E. ; Elev.
A village on the coast of the Dashti district of Ears, 12 miles north-west
of Lavar. It contains 25 houses of Khanasir and Kabkanis. The
villagers are fishermen and grow corns annd dates. They have two large
boats.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
KALATEH— Lat. Long. Elev. 1,040'.
A ravine containing a scanty stream of brackish water which crosses the
Zurbatiyeh-Dizful road, 101 miles south-south-east of Deh Bala and some
7 miles to the south-east of the passage of the Maima river. A mile up the
ravine is the site of a Kurdish camp occupied almost throughout the year.
During the winter and spring many tents of Kurds are pitched on the
adjacent slopes, on which also are pastured large flocks and herds. There
is much grass on the adjacent spurs. In spring there is some wheaf and
barley, and in October the banks of the ravine to the south of the road
are lined with fields of Indian corn.
On a rocky hill above the right bank are the remains of an ancient
fort, and on a stony slope to the south-east the ruins of the city of
Serram.— {Burton.)
Ft. L 2 m

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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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