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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [59r] (122/686)
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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and Ram Hurmuz fields, 10,000; roghan for Kowait, R5,000.
Some 10,000 sheep are shipped annually for Basra and Kowait.
Grain pays an export duty of 32 kirans per karih.
Wool „ „ 32 ,, per 1,0001b weight.
Koghan „ „ | kiran per dulba.
Sheep „ „ 5 „ each.
The imports are—piece-goods, value 50,000 kirans, paying a duty
of 2 kirans per 20 pieces of 10 yards each; dates 10,000 kirans,
paying 5 kirans per karih. \Layard — Colville — Felly.)
The district of Bandar Mashhur, which previously belonged to
Fellahiyah, in 1879 was detached from it, together with several others,
and Amir, Abdula of Dih Mula, was appointed chief of the new group
on agreeing to pay 12,000 tumans, revenue and pishkash, in addition
to the 9,000 tumans already due by him for Dih Mula. {Ross.)
BANDAR RlG—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small town in Ears, 32 miles north-west of Bushahr and 75 miles
south of Bihbahan, situated close to the shores of the Persian
Gulf. It is surrounded by a miserable mud wall, flanked with round
towers, on which are placed three or four useless guns. This was once
the stronghold of the celebrated pirate Mir Mohana, who was once
the terror of the Gulf. When the place was taken by the English
the fortifications were razed; since which time it has entirely fallen
from its ancient importance, though it has continued to be the resi
dence of the principal Arab Shaikh on the coast.
It contains a hundred houses of Zoab Arabs, and pays a revenue of
1,200 tumans. Grain and animals for slaughter are procurable here,
and the water is good from wells.
Bandar Rig is very inferior to Bandar Dilam in size and import
ance. It imports only for its own wants and for those of its
neighbourhood. It is not a port for any route into the interior. Its
trade may be somewhat as follows :—
Exports.
Wheat and barley, 20,000 kirans in value.
Wool. . • 10,000 „
Imports.
100 karihs of dates and piece-goods to the value of 10,000 khans also a few
miscellaneous articles for home consumption.
The gross of the customs derived from this port may be 10,000 kirans.
Ross gives the following weights for all goods at Bandar Rig—
One man = 995 miscals, or about 19£lb
{Monteith — Malcolm — Layard — Jones — Felly)
Bell, 1884, says this village is the residence of Khan 'All Khan, whose
commodious residence faces the sea, built on a small sand mound.
It lies 13 miles north 2 west of Khor Rohillu, and is under the go
vernment of Bushahr. It has a small creek, inside which boats lie
aground.
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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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