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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [57v] (119/686)
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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92
BAN—BAN
look, and the Khan's residence is fine and well furnished. From
Banah it is 7 hours to Sardasht. There are two roads to Sulimania
(50 miles). [Gerard.)
Near to Banah the road traverses a mud flat—a depression in the
plain some 2 miles in width—that would form a serious obstacle to the
passage of guns or wagons. A causeway has been raised across it,
which is in process (October 1875) of being paved.
This morass—which it really is in winter—may be turned by a long
detour over a rough hill skirt. [Napier.)
BANAK—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village, 3 or 4 miles to north-west of Kangun, on the coast
of Fars. [Constable — Stijfe—Persian Gulf Pilot.')
BANARU—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in the open desert, 135 miles from Shiraz in Fars on the
road to Mughu Bay. No supplies. Water from wells. [Jones.)
BANAWAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, on the right bank of the river Dizful. It is
celebrated for its gardens and rich arable land. [Layard.)
BAN AW AR NAZIR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A river in Khuzistan, on the right bank of the river Dizful, cele
brated for its gardens and rich arable soil. [Layard.)
BAND Amir—L at. Long. Elev.
A village in the Kulwar district, Ears, north-east of Shiraz.
It is a populous place, divided and undermined in several places
by dams and subterraneous channels [Jcandts) for supplying wells
with water. It takes its name from a dam [band) erected across
the river Kur at this point by Azad-ud-Daulat, a former prince,
Governor of Fars, and the river is sometimes called by the same name.
There is very extensive cultivation of rice in this plain.
The Band, which gives its name to both the village and the river,
deserves attention, from its being a specimen of the hydraulic art
of the Persians. The river over which it is constructed runs in so
deep a bed that it is generally useless for the purposes of navigation;
and the object of the Band seems to be to give the stream a fresh and
stronger impetus, to throw it into a more extensive bed, and thus
to distiibute it by minor channels into the adjacent cultivation. The
and has been built immediately upon the superior angle of what
oiiginally must have been a natural fall, and consists of a straight
ridge of thirteen arches: to this bridge the river flows in a slow
current; but immediately on passing through the arches it falls
abiuptly over the inclined wall. The principal art of the architect
must have been exerted in the construction of this wall; and although
the whole work is going to decay, yet, considering the body of water
which is constantly flowing against it, and the length of time it
as existed (not less than seven hundred years), the principle of
its construction must be a good one.
[Morier — Malcolm — Kinneir — Ouselei/.)
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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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