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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [205v] (415/686)
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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388
KHI-KHO
On the north, Mohledin, 2 miles; Aikuni, 5| miles; Bureki, 2 miles;
Khojamali, 5| miles; Bozin, miles; Gurikel, 1 mile. On the east,
KumaiTj, 11 miles; Banu ,11 miles; Rudak, 11 miles; Mobrizi, 18
miles; Siahmansir, 22 miles; Shul, 22 miles; Jamila, 28 miles; two
Burekis, 3 miles. On the west, Mal-i-Shaikh, 28 miles; Dasht-i-
Gur, 25 miles; Sardashtak, 28 miles; Khun-i-Surkh, 22 miles;
Shul, 18 miles; Jarah, 22 miles; Chashistani, 3| miles; Burje-
kan Bakar, 3| miles; Burji-Kaid Muhammad TakI, 2 miles; three
Burekis, 2 miles. These villages may contain from 100 to 200
inhabitants each, dwelling in from 80 to 60 temporary huts. The
produce of the country not required for home consumption is either
consumed by passing caravans or is exported to Kazrun or Bushahr.
The imports are piece-goods, sugar, and coffee for home use. The
revenue, amounting to 7,000 tumans, is levied in the lump. The
safety of the road traffic is provided for by the chief of the district,
who maintains 50 irregular footmen for that purpose. The chief is
responsible for all goods lost or plundered from caravans within his
district, and charges a sort of transit due of 25 cents, of a kiran on
every load of piece-goods, and 12| cents, on every load of miscella
neous merchandise. Colonel Pelly is of opinion that English troops
could not summer in tents or huts at Khisht without suffering. He
passed two days in the sarai during July and two days in early part of
September, during both periods a fiercely hot wind blew all day. In
July the thermometer was at 96° in the early morning and about
110° in the heat of the day. Supplies are obtainable from the town
of Khisht, which is 4 miles north-west of Kunar Takhta on the
Shiraz-Bushahr road via Kazrun. [Felly.)
KHOJA AHMAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, between Nairiz and Khlr. [Abbott,)
KHOR 'ABD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small creek, about 3 miles to south-east of Ras-ut-Tamb, near
Dilam,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. [Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
KHORAIYAZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A deep-water channel between the Mutaf shoal and the mainland
of Ears, and during part of its extent the island of Umm Khailah.
It is used by native craft, which leave it by a channel close northward
of Umm Khailah, Khor Aiyaz having no outlet.
[Constable — Slijfe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
KHOR. BAHRANI—Lat. Long. Elev.
An entrance to Khor-SultanI near Bushahr, across a flat lying
between Aflaf-dan and Lafkah bank. It is only used by small boats,
as the entrance is exposed. There is another entrance between Ras-al-
Jabu and ATaf-dan. [Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
KHOR B AMIS Hi R—
Lat. 29° 59' 3O' 7 to 30°. Long. 48° 44' SO" to 48° 38' 30' / .
The mouth of the Karun river on the coast of Khuzistan is so called.
It was formerly used by .trading vessels, and was navigable a con
siderable way up; but is now blocked by a dam near the Hafar canal.
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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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