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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [132v] (269/686)
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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The Bakhtlaris smile at the state of affairs in Lur-i-Kuchak, and the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
. if allowed, would soon reduce it to order.
It is very doubtful, however, whether this anarchy is not connived
at for political reasons. To open the Karun to navigation, and the
roads through Luristan to commerce, is, to the mind of the bhah, to
give the foreigner a footing in Shustar and Dizful, to enrich the Lurs
and Arabs, and to strengthen a part of the country still unsubdued
and occupied by alien races and but scantily by Persians.
FELLAHlAH.—See Dorak.
FlRttZABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Fars, 72 miles south of Shiraz, and lOo miles from Bu-
shahr by Farrashband. .
Though prosperous it is now less important than it was m the
middle ages, and now contains some 4,000 inhabitants. It is sur
rounded by a mud wall and ditch, and there are a few plantations of
date trees round it. The town, though walled, is incapable of offering
any resistance to an army, and it is commanded by a low range ot lulls
on the east side. Supplies of grain and slaughter cattle can be procured
here, and rice, fuel, and ghi can be obtained from the nomads in the
Firuzabad is the chief town of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, who should be chief of
the Iliyat tribes of the district, but having been left early an orphan
with no one to look after his interests, the headship of the clan passed
to his first cousin Darab Khan, who seems to be a kind of brigand on a
magnificent scale. The
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
is an educated and refined man of
more than average intelligence. < # n
The plain to which Firuzabad gives its name is elevated and well
watered and bears rich wheat and famous rice.
It is one of the best corn-producing and grazing districts in Persia.
For the most part it is 7 miles wide, but at the south-eastern extiem-
ity narrows to 5 miles. Here it only produces grass, and has a rocky
mountain ridge on either hand, that on the north-east rising to 2,000
feet. It had thirty villages as many years ago, but the number is now
reduced to thirteen. The Firuzabad river, which has its source in the
Dasht-i-Muak, enters and leaves the plain by great gorges in the moun
tains which bound it. It is full of fish. Before arriving at Babu Nej
it forces its way through three more of these gorges, the last of which
has perpendicular cliffs 500 feet high; it then joins its waters with those
of the Kara Agach and flows into the Mund river (q.v.)
This district enjoys a moderate climate and was recommended by
Colonel Taylor as being in every way eligible for a cantonment.
The terms on which land is held in this district are as follow :—Land
the private property of the farmer is cultivated at his sole expense,
the labourers receiving in lieu of wages one-fifth of the produce ; out
of the remainder the farmer accounts to government for one-third as
tax. When the labourer furnishes seed, plough, and labour, he receives
one-third, government one-third, and the land-owner one-third of the
produce. On the Crown lands the government takes two parts of
the produce, but furnishes seed and ploughs: the labourer gets the
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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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