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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [133r] (270/686)
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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FIR—GAH
D-lvin^n o ^ h ® u tlie iand belongs to the peasant,* he cultivates it,
giving one part of the produce to government and keeping two parts for
himsdf Beyond Firuzabad on the road to Shiraz is the Tang-i-Flruza-
bad, a defile where the road goes along the bed of a stream which has
to be crossed frequently. _ The bounding heights, however, are not very
piecipitous, and could easily be crowned by infantry. There is a road
from Bushahr by this place to Shiraz known as the Firuzabad road,
which is piacticable for field artillery and caravans.
the north-west of Firuzabad are some ruins known
as Old Firuzabad, or Kala Firuzabad, evidently once a considerable
town, its ditch and embankment (the former 40 or 50 paces wide),
orming a wide circle, nearly a mile in diameter. Inside are the ruins
of stone-built houses and in the centre a solid stone pillar, 12 feet
square, and 60 feet high. There are also the remains of two tanks and
a great temple of the Ghabrs. The latter stands close by the mouth
of the northern gorge. It is built, like the town, of unhewn stone, and
its walls are 10 feet thick. It is about 120 yards long and 60 wide.
Old Firuzabad would seem to have been built by Ardashir Baba
Khan, the founder of the Sassanian dynasty, on the site of an older town,
Gur. In the 10th century it was taken by Azad-ud-Daulah of the
Buidh dynasty, and he gave it the name Firuzabad. With regard to
the modern town legend says that Alexander the Great built a dam at
the gorge at the southern end, thus flooding the plain and destroying
Old Firuzabad.
In a later generation Firuz Shah broke the dam, drained the plain,
and founded the modern town, called after his own name.
( Kinneir —P elly — Abbotl<—Jones—-Taylor — '■Stolze — Durand—Stack l)
FIRUZI—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Fars in the plain of Marvdasht. {MacGregor.)
FlRUZKAN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small valley, about 1| miles across, with a fort of the same name
near Firuzabad, Fars. (Taylor — Hardy — St. John.)
FURUR—Lat. Long. Elev.
An island in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, 5 miles from Ras Bustanah.
(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot.)
G
GACH—Lat.
Lorn
Elev.
A village in Yazd, 13| miles from that town, on the road to Ardakun.
(Gibbons.)
GACH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 13 miles from Yazd on the road to Kashan. (Gibbons.)
GAHINA—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Fars, between Tangistan and Khormuj. (Pelly — Jones.)
GAHRU—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village close to the boundary between the Chahar Mahal and
Arabistan districts on the Isfahan-Shustar road, 71 miles from the
former. (Schindler.)
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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)
- Arrangement
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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