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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [530v] (1065/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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2
KAft-KAffc
Inhabitants.
60 mud houses occu
pied and 30 or 40
deserted. The in
habitants are Ba-
vieh and have 10
mounted men and
20 rifles.
At present deserted,
but Muhaisin and
Bam Tamim (II) of
the ’Ayaisheh sec
tion still encamp
here and occasional
ly cultivate wheat
and barley.
10 mat huts of Muhais-
sin of the Mani’at
section. They have
5 rifles.
31 mud heuges of Ba-
vieh of the JS awasir
and Lijbaaat sec
tions. Thej have 10
mounted men and
20 rifles.
20 mud and reed
houses of Muhaisin
of the Manai’at sec
tion : 10 men are
mounted and there
are 20 rifles.
Remarks.
The caravan route from
Muhammareh to
Hawizeh leaves the
Karun at this place,
which, after Muham
mareh, Nasiri and
Muzaffari, is the
most important on
the Karun below
Band-i-Qir, and
Shaikh ’Anaieh, who
is in direct charge of
the right bank of
the Karun as repre
senting the Shaikh of
Muhammareh, resides
here. Wheat and
barley are grown here;
and a few mules,
a number of donkeys
and cattle, and some
sheep and goats are
owned. There is on
small ferry-boat.
This place was once
(it is said) the seat of
Maulas of Hawizeh.
It is stated that a
canal formerly ran
from this place to
Hawizeh, and had a
branch which went
off in a southerly
direction.
Inhabited only on sea
sons of seed time and
harvest.
The people are cultiva
tors. There is a
ferry here with one
small boat.
This is a colony located
by the Shaikh of
Muhammareh for the
protection of the river
traffic. They culti
vate wheat and bar
ley. There is one
small ferry-boat.
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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- 1 volume (635 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K'
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