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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [389] (408/1050)
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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BAR—BAR
389
barn C n—
See Hillah Qadha.
BARQA (A l)—
A halting place about 60 miles from Mecca on the western route to Al Madinah. It
lies amongst acacia and other trees in the midst of a plain more gravelly than sandy,
at a distance of seven hourg' march from Al Qara.— {Burckhardt, J. L: 1815.)
BARQAH (Tribe)—
See 'Ataibah (Tribe).
BARQAN (Island)—
An island at the north end of the Red Sea, situated in latitude 27° 54' north, and longi
tude 35° 4' east. It lies about half-way between the entrance to the gulf of 'Aqabah,
and the port of Muwailah, and is 2J miles long and 100 feet high. It is divided into two
parts connected by a low sandy track, the higher portions being two wedge-shaped
hills. A good anchorage may be found, with sandy bottom, close to the south-eastern
end of the island ; there is also an anchorage east of the isthmus, in from 7 to 15 fathoms.—•
{Bed Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
BARQAN (Island)—
An island off the coast of Hejaz, in latitude 27° 54' N., longitude 35° 4' E.
BARR—
See Man amah.
BARR (R as-al)—
See Bahrain (Island).
BARRACHEDA (A l)—
One of the nomad tribes of Ashraf {q. v.).—{Doughty.)
BARRAGA {or Barreyga)—
The fifth halting place on the Syrian Hajj route, after leaving Madain Salih for Al-
Madinah. It lies in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh, apparently about half-way between Istabal An tar
and Al-Madlnah.— {Doughty.)
BARRAH—
A large village in the ^ridh District {q. v.).
BARRAH (J abl-al)—
A hill in south-western Najd, situated about 24 miles south-south-west from the Sija
wells, and constituting one of the landmarks on the Hajj routes from Qasim and Riyadh,
which pass to the north of it.
BARRAK (I bn)—
See Hataim (Barraqah).
BARRlQAH (T ribe)—
See Hataim.
BARRI (Jubail-al)—
See Biyadh,
BARRUD (A l)—
A village of 30
south-west from
the Besamna of
houses in the Washam district of eastern Najd, situated 24 miles south-
Shaqrah. The Bedouins call this place Al-Bessam ; and it is possibly
PKny.— {Doughty.)
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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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