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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [205r] (414/686)
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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KHE—KHI
KHELLOKH (?)
A tribe of Fars^ under the authority of the Il-Khani of that province.
No mention is made of their number or locality. {Felly.)
KHEOLAH. See Kallun.
KHIDK (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village about 42 miles from Yazd, a mile to the left of the road
going towards Karman. {Abbott.)
KHIKU PASS-Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass to north of Khawiz, Pars, 2 hours , slow-going from the latter
to it. The ascent to it is by a narrow and dangerous mule or goat track.
{Durand.)
KHlR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Fars ; near the southern hank of Lake Niris, with a
considerable amount of cultivation in the vicinity, wheat and opium.
Gardens of fruit trees scattered over the plain, which here juts out
into the lake in the form of a promontory. There is a spring of
sweet water here. ( Wells.)
KHIRAJ (?)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A hill in Pars, between Masarm and Jarah, near the hill of Dodu
on the one hand, and Salamatl on the other. {Durand^
KHISHT or KISHT—Lat. Long. Elev.
Name of a river and district in Pars, reached on the road from
Bushahr to Shiraz by Kazran, after the ascent of the Kotal Malu
pass.
The administration of this district was entrusted in 1882 to Haji
Mirza Agha Khan,
vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
, and his brother Fazl 'Ali Khan.
{Stack — Foss.)
KHISHT—Lat. Long. ~Elev. about 1,000'.
A plain in Pars, situated about two-thirds of the way from Shiraz to
Bushahr at the head of Kotal-i-Malu. It is a plain of an irregular
oval shape, some 10 miles long by 5 miles broad, and surrounded by
hills, except at the point where it overlooks the pass. A river winds
down through the hills past the ruins of Shahpur, and bearing that
name enters the plain of Khisht in a fine drinkable stream on its eastern
side, and keeping close below the hills which skirt the plain on its
east* and north sides, passes below the town and fort of Khisht, and
finally descends to the gulf far to the north of the Bihbahan and
Shustar line. Numerous water-ducts have been cut across the plain
leading from the river-bed, and this portion of the plain is well
cultivated with wheat, barley, rice, tobacco, and cotton; it contains
also extensive date groves, perhaps upwards ol 2,000 date trees may be
found. The plain is further dotted with old stumps of trees and
brushwood. In the centre of the plain and on the high road is the group
of hamlets called Kunar Takhta, lying around a commodious and solid
masonry caravansarai. There are some 31 villages or hamlets suboi-
dinate to Khisht, which is considered as .a revenue division. The fol
lowing is a list of them with their distances from the fort of Khisht .
387 25 a
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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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