'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [632r] (1268/1278)
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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KUT—KWA
625
KUT SAIYID ANAYEH, vide KARUN RiverU
KUT SAIYID SALIH, vide KARUN River. ,
KUT SUWAIYID, vide KARUN River.
KUTTAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Biishire diitrict of Ears ; it has 150 houses.— {Felly.)
KUT-UL-BINNAIEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the river Shatait {q.v.).
KUT-UL- UMAIREH, vide KARUN River.
KUT-UN-NADAFlYEH, vide KARUN River.
KUT-USH-SHAIKH— Lat. 30° 27' N. ; Long. 48° 12' E. ; Elev.
A village on the north shore of ’Abbadan island opposite Muhammareh
town. It consists of 150 mud houses inhabited by Bahraini settlers, Per
sians, and a few mixed Arabs. It contains about 15 shops. Bedlams and
sailing-craft are built, and water posts jars, and ’a&as are manufactured.
The village was formerly called Kut-i-Fars and belonged to the Ka’b
Shaikhs in time of their supremacy.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUTABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Laristan, about 66 miles north-west of Bandar ’Abbas', on
the road to Yazd. It has a date-grove, irrigated by a good canal.— {Galindo,
November 1888.)
KUYAIBDEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village in Southern ’Arabistan, 4 miles below Bakhakh .and 15
miles from the mouth of the Bahmanshir. It has 30 huts with a popula
tion of Mutur Muhaisin Arabs.—(Pemaw Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUWAIT HASIUM—■
A canal in the Fallahleh district of Southern ’Arabistan, on the right
bank of the Jarrahl river, with which it is connected. It irrigates 20 fadddns
of country producing dates, wheat and barley. The inhabitants are Ka’b
of the A1 Bu Khanafireh section.—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KUZAGU Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting place of Kirmanshah, two stages south-west of that town
on the road to Baghdad.—(£erar(k)
KUZAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Khuzistan, 17 miles from Dizful, on the road to Shu-
shtar.— {Mackenzie.)
KWAJA IBRAHIM (
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
) See Rahdar.
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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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