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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [552r] (1108/1278)
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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HHH
KHA-KHA
m
KHANAK—
A village in the Zarand district, about 44 miles north-west of Kirman,
near the road thence Yazd. It is situated under the Hutkan range of
mountains, and consists of flat-roofed stone-built houses, with a ruined
mud fort on a mound in the centre, and with fine orchards around. Three-
quarters of the village is Government property. In 1882 the qandt which
irrigates the cultivation of the place was destroyed by a swollen moun
tain torrent issuing from a gorge 2 miles above the village.— (Stack.)
KHANEH AMEE—
A village in Kirman, 8 miles west of Saidabad, in the district of
Sarjan, and nearly uninhabited.— (Kinner — Abbott.)
KHANEH-I-SHAIKHFABHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Diz river, about 2 miles above Kut Bandar. It is also
called Ilm Kathir. It consists of a combined fort and
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
built
of mud, and was until recently the head-quarters of Shaikh Farhan Asad,one
of the heads of the Kathir tribe, but he has now removed to Deh Nau.
Another form of the name is Lim Kathir.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer
1908.)
KHANEH-I-KHET, vide KHAN-I-KAT.
KHANEH-I-MIRZA—
A village on the road from Chighakhur to Fehlian, 13 farsakhs from the
former, some 40 miles west-south-west of Yazdikhast.—(>ScAmdfer.)
KHANEH-I-KITF, vide KHAN-I-KAT.
KHANEH PANJ—
A village in the Yazd district, about 65 miles east of \azd, and 12 miles
west of Bafq. Khaaneh Panj is situated on the edge of the great Kavir (or
salt plain) which extends all the way from Zarand. It consists of a stable
and some small out-houses, little vaulted chambers more like hen-coops than
human habitations. Close by are two tanks of foul and brackish w r ater,
greasy, slightly sickening, and overlying a deposit of black mud.
(Stack.) .) . -
KHANEH KAH-DAN or KEHDAN— Lat. 28° 55' N. ; Long. 53° 25' E.;
Elev.
A village in Fars, 3 miles north of Asmangird which is on the main
Jehrum-Shiraz road, and itself on a parallel track running to Baba Aajm
and Abadeh. A flourishing village ; population about 300 ; houses about
50. Large orchards all round, and extensive irrigated cultivation. Water
from wells, qandts and irrigation cuts. Grazing good ; supplies scanty:
fuel scarce.— (Wilson, 1907.)
KHANlK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars, 13 miles from Farrashband, on the road to Kazarun.
Water good from brooks. No supplies, except forage and sheep from
lliats. This place was deserted in 1871.— (St. John.)
2q'2
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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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