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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [64v] (133/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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106
BIL—BIN
tured. The hi^h elevation of the site of the town entails the
disadvantages of rigorous winter and a scanty water-supply ; it was,
no doubt, selected when the level fertile banks of the Kizil Uzan
were trampled by hostile bands of Tartars or Kurds.
The villages of Bijar are usually without gardens and stand in the
centre of extensive tracts of plateau, land ploughed for corn. The
quantity of land owned by the village is so extensive that a crop is grown
only every third year on the same land. The average yield of wheat
on such lands is calculated at five-fold. Ordinarily the gross products
of the land are said not to exceed the local requirements; but after a
good season, such as in 1875, a considerable surplus would be available.
In November 1875 the price of wheat was Bs. 4 per kharwar of about
6001bs. The price of barley was -fths that of wheat.
The only exportable product of the district is sheep, which are kept
in large flocks on the upland pastures and the wastes surrounding the
cultivated lands. Fuel is rather scarce. (Napier.)
BILAWAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
One of the sixteen districts of Persian Kurdistan. (Plowden.)
BIL Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Kum Firuz plain, in Ears, surrounded by splendid
crops.
This village, together with two others, was sold by Haji Nasir-ul-
lah Khan to the Maslnr. (Durand.)
BILt}J (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain near the frontier of Kurdistan between the fort of Mari wan
and Panjwin, watered by a stream called Ab-i-Zizub. (T. C. Plowden.)
BIMANSttCHAI—Lat. Long. EleV.
A stream near the frontier of Kurdistan, in the Zagros mountains, met
with a little north of Panjwin, on the road to Sarambal.
Another name of it is Mashkal. (Gerard.)
BIN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Kurdistan. It is the fourth stage from Banah, on the
road to Sahna. It is in a mountainous district. (Gerard.)
BINAB—Lat. * Long. Elev.
A town of 2,000 houses, on the Tabriz-Karmanshah road, surrounded
by extensive high-walled gardens, 12? miles south-east of Ajabshlr.
(Napier.)
BlNDtNl—
A small tribe of Khuzistan, who are dependent on the Bakhtiarls, and
are scattered amongst them, and are said to number 6,700 families and
to be able to turn out perhaps 500 fighting-men. They are believed
by the Bakhtiarls to be the aboriginal inhabitants of their country.
This tribe has no chief of its own, but some of its members intennix
with the Chahar Lang. (Layard.)
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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