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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [374] (393/1050)
The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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374
BAJ—BAK
bajar I yah—
See 'Adai (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
).
BAJI (A l ) (T ribe)—
See Lam (Bani).
bajil—
A town in Yemen, situated about 32 miles from Hodeida on the road to Sana'a, and
containing about 3,000 inhabitants. It is commanded on the south side by low foothills
about a mile away from the town. There is a good and abundant supply of water from
Bir Zulail in the middle of the town. Bajil is situated in rich agricultural district, and
one of the few yielding a fairly regular asliur, or land tax. Supplies are readily obtain
able and consist of millet, sesame, and other grain, fodder, fuel, livestock, poultry,
and eggs. The town is administrared by a Tirkish Kaimakam whose district begins
just outside Hodeida, includes Obal, and extends north to Jabal Malhan.
BAKARA (J abal)—
A high hill in the northern Yemen Tihamah. It is situated close to the sea on the
northern side of Widan anchorage {q. v.),—{Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
bakara (khor)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); islands.
BAKHA—
See Miyah (
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al).
BAKHAH—
See Ruus-al-Jibal.
BAKHAIT—
See Raudhah.
BAKHAKH—
See- 'Abbadan.
bakhakh-at-tura—
See 'Abbadan.
BAKHlT-BIN-SlLIM (B ait) —
A Bedouin section of the Al Kathir tribe (q. v.) of Dhufar.
bakhrain—
A small settlement, about six miles north-east of Makalla which is the port of the
Hadhramawt. It is the first halting-place on the road from Makalla to Shibham, and
possesses wells, some palm trees, and a bungalow belonging to the Sultan of Makalla.
Between Makalla and Bakhrain the country is arid waste, except just outside
the town where the road traverses a valley called the " Beginning of Light " in which
by the help of irrigation, bananas and cocoanut trees flourish.— {Bent; December, 1893.)
BAKIL (?) Tribe in Yemen.—
Mentioned with the Hashid.
Bakil tribe belong to the Imam Idrisi but are at present (1915) in the pay of the
Turks.
BAKIL—
A large tribal district in eastern Yemen, lying between the Yemen-Hajj route and the
Bahr-as-Safi, and apparently extending from the Sana'a district almost up to the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Najran.— {Hunter's map of Arabia.)
BAKK (B ani)—
See Aden (Protectorate.)
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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.
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 (523 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:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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