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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1427] (488/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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'OMAN SULTANATE
1427
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tnen, each of which is supposed to be commanded by a sort of non-commissioned
officer called an 'Aqid. Every regular fort is in charge of a military commandant
called a Jama'dar. In the more important stations the 'Askarisare armed with breech-
loading rifles. The Sultan has a number of old muzzle-loading gun, but not more than
one or two of these are capable of being moved.
The once considerable navy of 'Oman is now represented by a single steam yacht, the
" Nur -al-Bahr," of 300 tons, mounting one 9-pr. R.M.L. gun and one five-barrelled
Nordenfelt of '45 calibre.
The ruling family.* —The descendants of Ahmad-bin-Sa'id, the founder of the ruling
family, are now too numerous,—many of them being also obscure,—to permit of a
complete genealogical table being drawn up ; but in the space given to 'Oman
in the third volume of this Gazetteer will be found a table including all or most of those
who retain any importance at the present time.
The present Sultan, Saiyid Taimur-bin-Faisal, is proprietor, as a private individual,
of the following estates in his own territory :—
Where situated.
'Auhi in the sub-Wila-
yat of Sobar,
Bidbid in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Samail.
Hail in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-Hilti
Khasab
Manah
Nakhl
Nizwa
Quryat
Ruwi
Samail
Sidab
Wataiyah
Nature of property.
Date-groves and eulti-
tivated land.
Date-groves
Date-groves and culti
vated land.
Ditto
Grazing land
Date-groves and culti
vated land.
Date-groves
Ditto
A few small date-grove
Date-groves and land
A few small date-groves
Date-groves and culti
vated land.
Annual
value.
$300
$2,500
$300
$1,000
Nil
$1,000
$2,000
$350
$2,000
$2,000
How proceeds are disposed
of.
Assigned to Sulaiman-bin-
Suwailim, lately deceased,
who was Wali of Dhufar
and in recent years ot
Sobar also.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Assigned to the Wali of
Khasab.
Assigned to the officer o£
Manah.
Assigned to the Wali of
Nakhl.
Assigned to the Wali of
Nizwa.
Assigned to the Wali of
Quryat.
Retained by the Sultan.
Assigned to the Wali of Hisn
Samail.
Retained by the Sultan.
Assigned by the Sultan to
his eldest son Taimur.
• Remarks on the principles of succession to the Sultanate in 'Oman will be found in the Government of India'*
Foreign Proceedings for November 1898.
8l 2
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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