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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [58r] (120/686)
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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93
BAN—BAN
The Band Amir is a sluggish muddy stream. This name really only
belongs to the lower portion of the river after the junction of the
Kur and Pulvan. There is a stone bridge where the Persepolis road
from Shiraz crosses the stream.
Higher up, the river, which drains every large basin, is much
bigger, but it dwindles down to a small stream by the time that
it reaches the margin of Lake Niris, into which it flows, being ex
hausted by numerous canals and irrigation works, which occur in
its course through Marvdasht and Kulwar. ^ ( Ussher — Lovett^)
BANDAR-AL-GHAWl (PARS)—An anchorage near Bushahr, with
Ras-al-Tabri west to north-west in 6 feet at low water; small native
vessels anchor here. [Constable — Stiffe-—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
BANDAR DILAM—Lat. 30° 1 / 50.* Long. 50° 12' IS." Elev.
A small port on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, situated in the bay called Duhat
Dilam, 31 miles north-west of Bandar Rig, 62 miles from Bushahr, 67
miles from Bihbahan. It is now only a small trading and fishing
village, though once a place of trade belonging to the Dutch, the
remains of whose
factory
An East India Company trading post.
are still pointed out. The water here is
indifferent, dear, and at a distance of a mile from the town. The
inhabitants carry on a slight trade with Basrah and Bahrein. The
harbour here is only suitable for boats. The anchorage, however, is
good and the roadstead one of the best in the gulf. It is under the
government of Bushahr, and is described as a thriving little place of
2,000 inhabitants.
The centre part of the town is occupied by a large enclosure or fort,
the residence of the Katkhuda. The south part is filled with fishing
population, while the northern half is full of traders. The fishermen
here, using the drag net, catch great numbers of seyr fish. These they
split and dry and send to Basra by sea, and to the villages round on
donkeys. The traders import iron, sugar, tea, and cloth from Bu
shahr and Kowait, and dates from Basra, and forward them by cara
vans to Bihbahan, while they bring down bales of cotton, wool, ghee,
dried fruits, and forward them to the Gulf towns. Ophthalmia is the
prevailing disease here. There is very little fever and no small-pox.
In fact, the town would be very healthy if it were not for ophthalmia,
The waters from the wells is good and abundant.
The fort is square (lat. highest tower, 30° 3' 14", long. 50° 9' 45*).
Half a mile to south of fort are a few trees with a little cultivation.
* Lat. of table hill. . 29° 57'58" 1 Nine miles S. E. | E. of Dilam
Long. „ . . 50° 17' 36 J is a small *table hill of light colour,
with perpendicular sides. It is 165 feet high and visible 14 miles.
The coast here is merely a strip of land 10 to 15 feet above the sea,
inland of which are swamps extending for miles. At about 1 \ miles
north-east of the town is a small fort, near the wells, from wdiich the
town is supplied with water. Several forts are visible in the distant
plain northward of the table hill. Dilam is the port of the Bihbahan
district and much gram, ghi, &c., is exported chiefly to Bushahr and
Kowait. Cattle, &c. are obtainable. The inhabitants are chiefly Arabs
of the Ubaidullah tribe. Native boats lie £ mile off the town, but
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:340v, back-i
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