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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎556r] (1116/1278)

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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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KHA—r-KHA 549
EHANC—Lat. Long Elev.
A hamlet in Eirmanj 47| miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Saidabad.— {Napier, 1899.)
KHlRAG (Island)—Lat. 29° 15' 2"; Long. 50° 18' 50" ; Elev. (highest
point) 284'.
A considerable island in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; its south-eastern point is 34
miles west-north-west of Bushire town, and 2| miles north of it begins the
smaller island of Khargu. Kharag is over 4 miles in length from north to
south, and its average breadth is about 2 miles. The greater part of the
island consists of almost barren, table-topped hills, highest in the middle and
at the south end where they exceed 25 feet ; northwards they decrease in
elevation and terminate in cliffs only 20 to 30 feet high. The only low
grouped is a plain, about 1 square mile in extent, which forms a protuberance
on the north-east side of the island, carrying at its extremity the only village
on the island and the remains of a Dutch fort. The low part of the island
possesses a sandy soil, mixed with particles of disintegrated rock, and capable,
when irrigated, of producing crops. About 100 acres are thus employed by
the inhabitants, and during the cold season upwards of 500 are cultivated ;
when the rains fall, the soil, though meagre, is capable of great improve
ment. The breach is of small breadth and rises somewhat abruptly from the
sea, whose bottom is covered with coral rocks.
The island is surrounded by a reef about \ a mile broad : the best
anchorages and landings are off the village, but they are exposed, and
the holding-ground is rocky and indifferent.
In the interior of the island are some caves which are possibly prehis
toric places of sepulture. They were originally divided into recesses by
three partitions of living rock, which were grooved for the reception of
four tiers of shelves, but they are now used as cattle-pens, and the old work
is much defaced. A Muhammadan shrine of Mir Muhammad, also in the
interior, appears to have been in existence for more than 600 years and
is still a place of pilgrimage.
Climate .—The climate of Kharag has always been deemed very
salubrious, it is like that of Bahrain, but is cooler in summer. The
atmosphere is less moist than that of Bushire. The maximum range of the
thermometer in the hot season is seldom above 9o in tents and by the
use of tatties it can be kept down to 75 .
Population, supplies and resources .—The village consists of 120 houses and
the inhabitants are degenerate Arabs, talking a mixture of Persian and
Arabic who describe themselves as originally from the island of Qais, from
Kaleh Giilabl and from Hajari: they are all Sunni Muhammadans except
those from Kaleh Gulabi, who are Shi ahs and compose about gth of the
population. In character the Kharakis are quiet and unwarlike, but they
possess a few Martini rifles. The people are mostly pearl-divers and pilots,
but a little agriculture is carried on. There are 1,500 date trees and some
wheat and barley are grown. Irrigation is partly from springs, of which there
are four large and three small, and some old (jandts exist , there are also wells
of good water close to the beach, and on these the drinking supply prin
cipally depends. The inhabitants possess 50 donkeys, 50 cattle and about

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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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