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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎564r] (1132/1278)

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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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KHI—RHI
557->
RHISHT (2)—Lat: 29° 33' N.; Long. 51° 25' E. •; Elev. about 1,800.'
A plain in Ears, situated about two-tbirds of the way from Shiraz to
Bushire at the head of Rutal-bMalu. It is a plain of an irregular oval
shapfe, some 10 miles long by 5 miles broad, and surrounded by hills except
at the point where it overlooks the pass. A river winds down through
the hdls past the rums of Shahpur, and, bearing that name enters the plain
of Khisht in a fine, drinkable stream on its eastern side, and, keeping close
be ow th6 hills which skirt the plain on its east and north sides, passes
below the town and fort of Rhisht, and finally descends, to the Gulf far to
the north of the Beh behan and Shushtar line. Numerous water-ducts have
been cut across the plain leading from the river-bed, and this portion of the
plain is well cultivated with wheat, barley, rice, tobacco and cotton - it
contains also extensive date groves, perhaps upwards of 2,000 date trees
may be found The plain is further dotted with old stumps of trees and
brushwood. In the centre of the plain and on the high road is the group
of hamlets called Runar Takhteh. There are some 31 villages or hamlets
subordinate to Rhisht, which is considered as a revenue division. The
following is a list of them with their distances from the fort of Rhisht :
North.
Miles
from
fort.
East.
Miles
from
fort.
West.
Miles
from
fort.
Mahal-i-Dln
2
Kamarij
11
Mal-i-Shaikh
28
HaikanI
51
Banu
11
Dasht-i-Kur
25
Buraki
2
Rudak .
11
J ardashtak
28
Khawaja Mall
H
Mubrizi
18
Kan-i-Surkh ;
22
Bazin.
51
Saih Mansur
22
Shul .
18
Gurikal
1
Shul . „
22
J arreh
22
Samileh
23
Chashishtani
31
Buraki (two)
3
Burj-i-Khan Ba-
31
kar.
Burj-i-Kaid-i-
31
Muhammad Taqi
Buraki (three)
2
These villages may contain from 100 to 200 inhabitants each, dwelling
m from 30 to 60 temporary huts. The produce of the country no requi ed
for home consumption is either consumed by passing caravans or is exported
to Razarun or Bushire. The imports are piece-goods, sugar and coffee for
home use The revenue, amounting to 7,000 tumdns, is levied in the lumn
The safety of the road traffic is provided for by the chief of thp rli f •
who maintains 50 irregular footmen for that purpose. The chief is respom

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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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