'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎33v] (71/1278)

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AHSHAM SHAIKH HA (1).—Lat. Long* Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears 3^ miles south of ’All Changi.
It contains 20 houses and grows barley, wheat and dates.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
AHSHAM SHAIKH (2)— Lat. 28° 57' N. ; Long. 51° 5 E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 1 mile south of ’All Changi.
It contains 40 houses and grows crops of wheat and barley. There are
1,000 date-trees, animals are 2 horses, 2 mules, 30 camels, 50 donkeys, 30
cattle and 500 sheep and goats.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
AHSHAM VARAVl— Lat. 28° 34' N. ; Long. 51° 19' E. ; Elev.
A village in the DashtI district of Ears, 9 miles south-west of Khurmuj
town on the west side of the Khurmuj plain. It contains 30 houses. The
inhabitants are Sunni immigrants from Shlbkuh. Resources are 20
donkeys, 15 cattle, 300 sheep and goats and 3,000 date-palms.— {Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
AHWAZ— Lat. 31° 21' 27" ; Long. 48° 45' 47" ; Elev. 220'.
A considerable village on the left bank of the Karun river, situated at the
head of the rapids to which it gives its name, and at the western end of a
range of sand-stone hills which subside before reaching it, but re-appear at
some distance on the opposite side of the river. It stands upon a somewhat
high bank, 31 miles below Wais and 42 from Band-i-Qlr. The country behind
it is desert. At the north end of the village, on an elevated salient of the
river bank, there was until recently a large, dilapidated, rectangular Persian
fort but it has now been pulled down for the sake of the materials : an
Imdmzddeh is still a feature of the place. In the stream, opposite the lower
end of the village, are some mills which are removed in time of flood ; and
a little below these again is a bluff or rock, forming part of the bank and
traversed by a gallery, which probably carried mill races in former times.
Immediately below this rock is a garden on the bank belonging to the Mu’-in-
ut-Tujjar. The houses number about 160, and, except a few which are
of stone, are built pf sun-dried bricks. The poputation is about 4,000 souls ;
most of them are Arabs of mixed tribes, but there are some Persians. The
majority are engaged in agriculture, but about 60 mules are owned by them.
To Ahwaz belong 17 sailing boats of 10 to 15 tons burden, besides the
river steamer Shushan of 30 tons’ capacity, and her barge of 50 tons.
There is also an iron barge belonging to the Mu’in-ut-Tujjar. The native
boats, which can be, and are, towed up the rapids when necessary, drop
down the river without the help of sails from Shalilai on the Gargar to
Ahwaz in 3 days, and from Ahwaz to Muhammareh in from 4 to 6 days.
Some pilgrims to Karbala adopt this means of conveyance, especially those
from Shushtar and the Bakhtlarl country and a few from Isfahan. There
is a ferry at Ahwaz with two small boats. Ahwaz is situated in the southern
'Arabistan district of Ahwaz ; and its revenue is divided equally between
the local headman and the Shaikh of Muhammareh.
Any attempt to render the Consulate buildings defensible would be
worse than useless and would be a waste of money. The consulate build
ing at Ahwaz is an old Persian house commanded by, and to whicii access