![‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎30v] (65/686)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00011a/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_1_0065.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎30v] (65/686)")
‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [30v] (65/686)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
38
AB—AB
The river is also called locally the Fahlian, Tang-i-Khast and
Tang-i-Radian. Though called “ salt” it is described as quite sweet
at Tang-i-Rudian, as at Kala-i-Safid, &c. It gets its name from salt
being manufactured on the bank of a tributary of the main stream,
the waters of which are highly impregnated with sodium.
{Be Bode — JFells.)
AB-I-SHtJR (3)—Lat. Long. % . . Elev *
A large stream in Khuzistan, which enters the Karun above Loli. It
is nearly always fordable unless swollen by rain, when it becomes
a most impetuous and dangerous torrent. The water of this stream
has a decidedly brackish taste. It is also called the Darav and
Murdafil. {Layard.)
AB-I-SHUSTAR—
A local name given indiscriminately to the rivers Gargar and Shatit
{q.v.) in Khuzistan, because they come from a pass by that town.
{Schindler.)
AB-I-TALH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A considerable stream, known also as the Alar, in the Ram Hurmuz
plain south of Khuzistan. It runs from Chul-i-Ghul westwards.
It is crossed by a ford 4 miles south of Savila on the road from Bihbahan
to Shustar, where it runs between high banks. Its name signifies
“ Acacia water {BeBode.)
ABISTANAH—Lat. Lon?. Elev.
Name of a valley in Luristan, inhabited by the Sagwand Lurs. The
Khuramabad river, or Kashghan, runs through it, as does also the
principal road from Bumjird to Khuramabad. {Schindler.)
AB-I-ZAL—Lat. Long. Elev.
A river of Luristan, which rises high up in the fastnesses of Kala
Aspid and Anarahrud, and, after a course of perhaps 50 miles, falls
into the Karkhah, 3 miles below the point where it is crossed on the
road to Dizful. It is an impetuous mountain torrent, and is filled
with immense masses of rock brought down by the strength of the
current from the neighbouring mountains ; and the force of the water
is at the same time so excessive that accidents frequently occur in
crossing. The water is salt from the bed of gypsum which it tra
verses: it is, however, of the most pellucid clearness, whence its name
from the Arabic Zuldl (pure). A bridge by which Taimur crossed
still exists, but the pathway along its banks to it is said to be
impassable for artillery. There is a very difficult and dangerous ford,
about mile below the bridge, and about miles from the ruined
fort of Kala-i-Raza.
This river has been confounded by geographers with the river of
Dizful, but Rawlinson points out that they are totally different
streams, and, moreover, that the Ab-i-Zal is not now, nor ever was,
called the Ab-i-Dizful.
Rivadeneyia halted on its banks 41 miles from Dizful on the road
from Khuramabad at an elevation of 2,020 feet, and Schindler records
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
- Physical characteristics
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).
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [30v] (65/686), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100033249831.0x000042> [accessed 19 December 2024]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100033249831.0x000042
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100033249831.0x000042">‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎30v] (65/686)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100033249831.0x000042"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00011a/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_1_0065.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00011a/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1
- Title
- ‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:340v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence