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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [93v] (191/686)
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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164
BUS-CHA
BUSHKAN—Lat. Long. Elev. 1,900
A village of Ears, situated under the north-eastern slopes ot the Kuh
Slah, 75 miles east of Bushahr on the road to Flmzabad. It has a
mud*fort and 250 huts, with a few date trees about. Plane trees are
numerous, and fuel can be had in any quantity from the nomads of
the hills near. Cattle for consumption and draught not very numer
ous. Good water from springs and wells. {Jones — Telly — Durand.)
BtlTALI—Lat. Long Elev. _
A village in Ears, 14 miles from Bushahr, and 15 miles from Burazjun.
The country around is generally cultivated, but supplies are scarce,
and water also and mostly salt.
BtJZANA—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Luristan, about 15 miles from Burujird on a road to
Dizful. {Schindler.)
BUZ 1 AH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Khuzistan, 1 mile from Dorak and on the Uorak or
Jarahl river. It is the chief place of the K/ab or Chab Arabs, and is
the point to which small fishing craft come up for the supply of Dorak.
{Felly.)
.BUZPAR(?)—Lat. Long. Eley.
A mountain range in Ears, due north of Dihrud. {St. John.)
c
CHAB ARABS (originally K'AB)— „ . . .
A tribe of Arabs who inhabit the southern portion ot the plain ot
Khuzistan, whose boundaries are thus minutely described by Layard
“An imaginary line drawn from above Wais, a village^ on the
Karun, to Khalfabad, a village on the Jarahi, and continued by
the Zaitun hills to the Zurah, or river of Hindiyan, on the north
east, the river of Hindiyan on the east, the sea on the south, and the
Karfin on the west. The tribes under the Shaikh inhabit the right
bank of that river, but do not extend far into the interior. They also
occupy its banks from Ahwaz to its junction with the Shatt-ul-Arab,
and both banks of the Bahr-el-Mashlr to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The most
important rivers in Persia thus traverse the country in the possession
of this Shaikh. The district occupied by the Chab Arabs is at the
same time of great extent, and it is necessary, in accounting for the
smallness of the population, to remember that the interval between
these rivers is, in general, a complete desert, without any supply of
water, except during the rainy season, and in the months immediately
succeeding. The Chab Arabs originally came from Wasit and the
marshes at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates. They were
buffalo herdsmen, and, settling on the Delta formed by the estuary
of the Shatt-ul-Arab and the Karun, they founded the town of Koffan.
The country they now inhabit was at that time occupied by the
Persian tribe of Afghans, and the town of Dorak was their principal
settlement. The Chab Arabs, in the course of time, by treachery, and
with the aid of the Wall of Hawizah, succeeded indrivingthe Afshars out,
and taking possession of their country, which they have since retained.
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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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