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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [618v] (1241/1278)
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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G12
KUN—KUN
cows, sheep, barley bhusd and firewood are available in moderate quan
tities. The water is good ; there is plenty of room available for camping.—
(Stotherd, 1893.)
KUNAK or GAUNAK— vide KAHUNAK.
KUNAEABAD— Lat. 29° 2' N. ; Long. 51° 11' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Ears, closely connected with Chah
Kutah. It is situated in a plain south of Chah Kutah and contains 25 houses
of Damukh Dawasir Arabs. The village has a tower.— [
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUNAR-I-SIAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 15 miles from Firuzabad, on the road to Kangan. This
is in winter a favourite resort of the nomadic tribes from its mild climate.
There are some plane trees. Water is procured from wells.— (Jones.)
KUNARKU or KINAR KUH.— Lat. 30° 9' N. ; Long. 50° 57' E .; Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Ears, administratively dependent on
Bandar Dilam. It is situated 8 miles north of Bandar Dllam town, and
contains 60 houses inhabited by 300 mixed Lurs. Some grain is grown
here.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUNAR PlR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the river Shatait (q.v.).
KUNAR TAKHTEH— Lat. 29° 32' N. ; Long. 51° 25' E. ; Elev. 1,850'.
A village in Ears, situated in the middle of the plain of Khisht, 75 miles
from Bushire and 31 miles from Kazarun. The village is inhabited by
nomads. Supplies in abundance are said to be procurable from the neigh
bouring villages, but are scanty in Kunar Takhteh itself. The water in
the wells at this place is plentiful but brackish ; good water, however,
is procurable from a spring 2 miles distant. On the other hand. Noel says
the water, August 1908, is liable to run short in which case water is to be
obtained from an ambdr at the top of the Malu. Draught cattle are pro
curable in the neighbourhood. There is an old
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
here with an
arched gateway leading into a yard, round which are rooms for travellers
and behind them stalls, and there is also a small suite of rooms over the
gateway. In the centre yard is an elevated platform, the roof of a subterra
nean chamber called “ Zir-Zamini,” to which travellers retire during the
great heat of summer. There is a telegraph station here. The name
of the village signifies “ jujube bed ” from the bush which flourishes in the
neighbourhood.
Mr. T. F. Odling, M. R. C. S., in a medical report on the part of Persia
adjacent to the telegraph line, writes thus of the country between Dalaki
and Kunar Takhteh :—
“ The climate is less damp and slightly less hot and enervating than that
of the district between Dalaki and Bushire. During July and August
hot winds are prevalent. Good drinking water is procurable from the hills
, ^Jew miles distant. ” __
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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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