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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1496] (569/688)
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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1496
QATAR
Name.
Position.*
Hawar (Jazirat)
Nature.
Due west of the point
of Eas Aburuk and
about 5 miles from
it.
Island
Imhish (Has) .,
The southern en
trance point of
the Dohat-al-Usai-
wad inlet.
Cape
Remarks.
The foot of it ia
called Dohat Faish-
shakh. It contains
Jazirat Abu Falitah,
and Ras Aburuk
forms the western side
of its entrance.
Ras-as-Sumaiyah pro
jects into it from its
eastern side. On the
west s'de of the bay
are the ruins of a
fort which was built
by Rahmah-bin-Jabir
early in the 19th cen
tury. There are 4 or
5 masonry wells of
brackish water near
the site of the fort.
About 10 miles Ions;
north and south, and
roughly parallel to
the Qatar coast.
There are no wells,
but there is a
cistern to hold rain
water built by the
Dawasir of Zallaq
in Bahrain, who
have houses at two
places on the island
and use them in winter
as shooting boxes.
Fishermen also fre
quent Hawar. The
island is adjoined on
the north by Jazirat
Rubadh and on the
south by Jazirat
Janan, while Jabalal
Ajirah and Jazirat
Suwad lie in the
channel between it
and the mainland.
The ford called Maqta'-
al-Imhish in Dohat-
al-Usaiwad starts
from this promon
tory.
In following the^ast fine"' meailS nearer 40 the ^ o f promontory, and " below." means further from it.
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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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