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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [122] (137/1050)
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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122
AFL-AGA
Name.
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
Remarks.
Wusailah
About 5 miles north
30 houses of Dawa-
There are no ordinary
of Lailah.
sir, viz., 20 of the
' Arfaj and 10 of the
Ishkarah section;
also 8 of Bani Hajir
and 20 of inferior
tribes.
fruit trees and only
about 500 date
palms; but there is
good cultivation of
barley and wheat,
and melons, water
melons, onions and
lucerne are raised.
Irrigation is from
wells and the water
is raised by camel,
bullock or donkey
power from a depth
of 6 fathoms. There
are no horses, but
r
sheep and goats are
r
numerous. Wusailah
is under Lailah. In
the middle of the
Wusailah lands is
some high ground
called Rifa'ah with
ruins of houses; it is
now uncultivated as
well as uninhabited, j
AFLAJ—
A village in the Maghsat division of Sharqiyah {q. v.) in 'Oman.
AFLAJ BANI QITAB—
Also known as Mamur; a halting-place on the Dhank-'Ibri route, in the Dhahirah
district of 'Oman. It consists of a cluster of hamlets lying about 15 or 16 miles by road
almost due south of Dhank, and 2 miles south-east from a low hill called Jabal Falai
which stands on the north side of Mazun. The latter village is considered to be 14 mile
south of Dhank. The water supply of Afiaj Bani Qitab is both good and abundant
and comes from mountain springs the water of which is led down by means of falajs
{Cox ; May and June, 1902). See also Dhahirah.
AFLATAH (Tribe)—
See 'Ataibah (Tribe); Nafa'a section of the Barqah division.
AFUS (Qal'at)—
A qaVah on the left bank of the Euphrates a few miles above Samawah.
AGAB (A l)—
This place is reported to be the fourth stage on the nomad route between Tayma
and Ma'an and is probably situated about midway between Jabal Tubaik and Ma'an.—
{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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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