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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [630v] (1265/1278)
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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624
KUT—KUT
T l ie Mmc Kutah-Pir Zan “ pass of the old woman,” is apparently given
’ rough its resemblance to the old women of Persia in being peculiarly
mu ^ vl ^ m o-~'Q ue sley Monteith Pelly Sutherland — St. John-MacGregor
Cwzon 1889 N ewcomen, 1905—Markham—Usher—Douglas, 1912.)
KUTAL-I-ZARGHUN or GARDANEH-I-AB BARIK—
A pass, 12 miles from Shiraj, on the road to Zarghun. The ascent is half
a mile long with an average slope of 4°. The descent is verv rough and bad,
uith an average fall of T V for the first 1,300 yards but the slope is not con
stant and is m many places very steep.—(//owe, 1906.)
KUTAL-I-URCHTN-Lat. Long. Elev,
—( 7'n^v) betWeen lsfahan and Mahi§n on the road from Isfahin to Shiraz
The pass is very steep at the summit; guns, however, might be man
handled over with great difficulty.—(^owe, 1906.)
KUTASHEH-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village m Khuzistan, on right bank of the Jarrahi river. It has a few
reed huts and a knot of date-trees.—(GoMe.)
KUTIEH—
A tri 1 be of Khuzistan, numbering 400 adults and inhabiting huts near
Hawizeh, tributary to that place.—(Ross.)
KfJT PARIS vide KUT-USH-SHAIKH.
KUT HAJl IMAMHASAN, vide GARGAR (AB-I).
KUT-I-SHAIKH— Lat. 31° 22' N. ; Long. 49° 29' E.; Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district 4 or 5 miles from Mamudieh on a bearing
of 281 from that place and of 295° from Ramuz town. It consists of 2
mounds with Arab camps of reed huts, L| miles to the north-east of them —
{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUT KHAIYAIN, vide MUHAMMAREH District.
KU T-KHUWAIYIN, ^ vide KARUN River.
KUT MURAN, vide KARUN River.
KUT NEHR HASHIM— Lat. 31° 27' N. ; Long. 48° 23' E. ; Elev.
A village m Southern Arabistan in the Hawizeh district, and an import
ant point on the Karkheh river, about 25 miles west-north-west of Nasiri
and 15 miles east by north of Hawizeh. The inhabitants are Saiyids and
Bani Hardan (Ka’b) Arabs. An agent of the Shaikh of Muhammareh
rei dei hue. Ross says that there was a dam he e, in his time st/11
partially efficient, and a subterranean canal flowing from the Diz river,
which irrigated a small portion of the country between that river and the
Shatait river. This dam gave way in 1837 and has not been restored.
Some 700 families of Tkrish of the Daghaghleh section are generally in
camp a few miles to the east of this {Ross—Persian Gulf Gazetteer
1908.)
KUT SAIYID ’ABBAS, vide KARUN River.
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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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