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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎492v] (989/1278)

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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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486 KAL—KAL
KALEH-I-BURAZJAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A fort in Ears, 5 miles west of Khvansar on the Kirman-Shiraz road.—
(Preece, 1892.)
KALEH-I-CHUGHEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, in the buluk of Kam Flruz {q.v.) — (Durand.)
KALEH-I-CHUKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Kam Firuz plain north of Shiraz in Northern Ears.—
(Durand.)
KALEH-I-DARAB, or DARAI— Lat. 28° 41' N.; Long. 54° 36' E. ; Elev.
A large circular enclosure in Ears, 4miles to the south-west of the town
of Darab. It is 1 mile in diameter and the walls, evidently simply
mounds dug out of the plain, originally formed a rampart 35 to 40 feet
in height, leaving on the outside a ditch, 40 feet broad. In the middle of
the enclosure are 2 small, rocky hills, on the southernmost of which are
the remains of some buildings and a well. This hill is also the higher of
the 2, standing about 100 f eet above the plain. On the north-east are
the remains of an aqueduct, running from the hill to what was evidently
the gate and carried across the ditch. This extended some way into the
plain. The place has occasioned much discussion, and it is generally
supposed by tradition to be the citadel of Darius Nothus of the Greeks,
who reigned 423 B.C. The place is said to have been destroyed by the
troops of Umar. It, doubtless, belongs to the Sassanian period.— (Abbott —
Preece, 1884 — Curzon, 1889.)
KALEH-I-DARABI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined guard-house in Khuzistan, about 25 miles from Ram Hormuz,
on the road to Shushtar. It is a short distance from the Kandak river.—
(Schindler.)
KALEH-I-DIZ, vide DIZ-I-SHAHl.
KALEH-I-GACH GIRAN—
A circular fort, about 19 miles north-west of Shahpur, close to the road
to Nurabad.— (Grahame, 1908.)
KALEH IDRISIEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mud fort on the left bank of the Karun, inhabited by Arabs of the
Dris tribe. It is 18 hours' steaming above Muhammareh, and Selby con
siders it well-fitted for a fuel station, here being a steep bank, with deep
water close up and abundance of tamarisk, and the people very civil and
extremely willing to cut wood. It consists of 20 mat huts of Muhaisin,
having 25 mounted men and 15 rifles, and is occupied in the ploughing
season and harvest only. It belongs to the Ahwaz district.— (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KALEH-I-DUKHTAR (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
An ancient fort in Persia on the left bank of the Karun, at the point
where it emerges from the mountains into the plain of ’Aqili. It consists
of a lofty detached rock which rises abruptly from the river, and has been
surrounded and fortified to its very summit by great masses of stone

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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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