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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [550v] (1105/1278)
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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544
KHA—KHA
they are chiefly engaged in navigation, fishing, date-growing; wood-cut: ing
and lime-burning, and own about 50 camels, 20 donkeys and 200 cattle,
sheep and goats. Their diet is of fish, dates and coarse barley bread, the
commonest and most esteemed fish being a large sort of mullet. The
shipping of Khamir consists of 4 ghunchehs and 22 baqdrehs, some of which
run as far as Basrah and even to Indian ports. Exports are fish, lime in
large qantities, mill-stones and a little sulphur, but the trade in sulphur
has ceased to be remunerative under the expensive method employed ;
firewood is also sent to the towns of Trucial ’Oman and to Bahrain.
Khamir belongs properly to the Bastak district, but it is under the poli
tical supervision of the Governor of the Gulf Ports, and the local adminis
tration is carried on by a Kalantar appointed the MuTn-ut-Tujjar of Tehran,
who is revenue-lessee of Khamir and its dependencies. The present
Kalantar is one of the hereditary Shaikhs of the town. The Imperial
Persian Customs have now a post here.—(Pem'cm Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHAMIKCN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Tihran-Karvan district about 7 miles from Varpusht
on the Isfahan-Burujird road.— (Schindler.)
KHAMIS— Lat. LnNG. Elev.
A canal in the Fallahieh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the left bank
of the river Jarrahi, with which it is connected. This canal irrigates 22
fadddns cultivated by Bait Iblal Arabs dependent on the Ka’b—(Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KHAMSEH (Tribe), See IL-I-KHANSEH.
KHAMZEH (Village), vide JARPtAHl (River).
KHAN Channel (1)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A deep water-channel and the out of the two which are enclosed between
the Ras-ul-Mataf and the mainland coast of the Dashti district of Ears.
It is described in the Gazetteer—yide Ras-ul-Mutaf. It is also known as
Khar Aiyaz.— (Constable — Stifle—Persian Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
KHAN (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears on the shore of the lake of Niriz. It is a small place
being merely two or three clusters of mean houses.—(Onsefey.)
KHANABAD (1) —Lat. 29° 37' ft.; Long. 53° 8' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Kulvar district, Ears 32 miles east of Shiraz.— (Kinneir.)
KHANABAD (2)— Lat. 33° 19" N.; Long. 49° E.
A mud serai and fort in Luristan, prettily situated near the Ab-i-Burujird
river, below the Tang-i-Kalan Kuh. About a mile from it, up a ravine,
are a good spring and site for a camp. The fort belongs to a chief of the
Pulandwand tribe of Chehar Lang Bahktiarl.— (Sawyer, 1890).
KHANAFIREH—
An adscititious division of the Ka’b tribe (q.v.).
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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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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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