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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎626r] (1256/1278)

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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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KUS—KUS
619
KtfSHK (3)— Lat. 28° 40' N.; Long. 53° 50' E.; Elev,
A village in south-east Ears, about 20 miles from Jehrum on the road
thence to Fasa. The village lies about 1| miles east of the road and is
adjoined by the ruins of another village.— (Stotherd, 1893.)
KUSHK (4)— Lat. 29° 55' N.; Long. 52° 52' E.; Elev.
A village in the Marvdasht plain of Fars, on the east side of the Shiraz-
Isfahan post-road, and some 30 miles north-north-east of Shiraz. It con
tains 50 houses.— {Hopkins, 1903.)
KUSHK (5)—
A village in the Bastak district {q.v.).
KtfSHKAK (1)—Lat. Kong. Elev.
A band or weir of the Band Amir river {q.v.) in the Marvdasht plain of
Fars.— {Hopkins, 1903.)
KUSHAK (2)— Lat. 29° 43' N. ; Long. 53° 50' E ; Elev.
A small mud fort in Fars, 43 miles north-west of Darab, on the road
thence to Abadeh (2), and near the northern shore of lake Nagirs. It is
inhabited by 70 families of the Lashani tribe who live in the fort and in
tents around it, and own a few flocks of sheep and goats. There is a good
stream of water here, but supplies are very poor. A road to Khawan ’Ali
branches off here.— {Stotherd, 1893.)
KUSHKl—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan {q.v.).
KUSHK-I-BECHAH—
A village in Fars, about 12 miles north of Siraz.— {Grahame, 1908.)
KUSHK-I-BI-NAZIR (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars, near Barm-i-Dalik, in the neighbourhood of Shiraz.—
{Durand.)
KU SHK-I-M AUL A— Lat . Long. Elev.
A small village in Fars, lying east-south-east of Shiraz and reached shortly
before passing Darian (or Dariun) on the road to Niriz.
It has a guest-house with an upper storey. Revenue 3,000 tumdns .—
{Dobbs, 1903.)
KUSHK-I-ZARD— Lat. 30° 48' 44" ; Long. 52° 24'; Elev. 7,800'.—(Frazer.)
A plain in Fars, adjoining that of tjjan. It is breadth about 15 miles
and in length about 150. The soil is black loam, fertilised with numerous
springs of good water, and the ruins of towers, villages and places prove
that the nomads were not always permitted to monopolise what might,
with truth, be denominated the garden of Persia.
There is a range of mountains to the south called by this name also.
Height of a peak 11,300 feet. Large masses of snow here, on the northern
slopes, in July. Hil-top (of one of the spurs) a table-land nearly. The
fall is precipitous to north.

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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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