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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [59v] (123/686)
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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BAND-I-AHWAZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A dam across the river Kama in Khuzistan. It was built on
one of four ledges of sandstone which cross the river at this point
for the purpose of keeping up the water to fill the canals for irriga
tion purposes. At the west end of it is an opening of about 40 yards
broad, and through this (with the exception of the water which finds
its way over the small places where the dam is worn by time or broken
away) the whole of the river, here about 200 yards broad, rushes witli
a tremendous fall and velocity. This dam stayed the further course
of the Euphrates, one of the steamers of Colonel Ohesney's expedi
tion in 1836, but in March 1842 Lieutenant Selby, of the Indian
Navy, in the Assyria, passed safely through and proceeded up the
river to within a few miles of S bus tar. For fuller information see
Ahwaz. (Layard — Chesney — Selby.)
BAND-I-DUKHTAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined dyke on the Gargar river in Khuzistan, about 6 miles above
Band-i-kir. {Baring.)
BAND-I-FARRASH—Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of the remains of a massive stone wall in IFars across the
mouth of the pass reaching into the plain of Farrashband, from the
direction of Shiraz. {Taylor.)
BAND-I-KiR on BANAUDAH (The ancient Asker Mokram) —
Lat. 31° 497 Long. Elev. 300'.
An Arab village in Khuzistan, at a point of land where the two
branches of the Kama river (Kama Proper and Shatait), which separate
at Shustar, join together again. The Dizful river also joins the
Kama here. There is a ferry over the latter. Layard says the vil
lage is walled and contains 600 inhabitants. Robertson (1876)
describes it as a collection of mud huts, with 150 inhabitants. Wells,
later, states the number to be only 80. The 'Anafigah Arabs, a branch
of the Kathlr, encamp here.
Band-i-kir was a .dyke whose stones were fastened together by
klr, i.e., bitumen. This dyke is said to have been made by Darius.
It raised the water of the Gargar (Shatait) here 50 yards wide and
veiy deep, for irrigating the country. South of Band-i-kir, as far as
Wais, naphtha is found in the neighbourhood ; supplies plentiful.
( Layard — Robertson — Schindler — Baring — Wells — Ross.)
BAND-I-KlR—Lat. Long. Elev.
It is 23 miles north of Ahwaz. The river here is from 200 feet to 300
feet wide, from bank to bank 300 to 600 yards wide. Banks 20 feet
high. There is one ferry-boat here (29th March 1884) similar to
t lat at Ummut-Iemr (g'.v.) Band-i-kir is on the right bank of the
Ab-i-Boleiti, of about 40 families, 200 to 300 inhabitants. It lies at the
junction of the three rivers, which here unite to form the Karun river,
i.e., the Ab-i-Boleiti, the Ab-i-Buzurg-i-Shustar, and the Ab-i-Dizful.
iempeiature, shade, 3 p.m., 86°. There is good cultivation, and
giazmg-giound about; thousands of sheep are driven in from the
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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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