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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎209v] (423/686)

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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KHU—KHU
falling into the Khuramabad river. Also a mountain range appa-
ently so called from this stream ; its summit is 8,420 feet above the
sea. {Be Bode — Schindler.')
KHUSH MAKAM—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village now ruined, not far from Ardakan, Ears, to which place
some of its inhabitants have emigrated (about twelve families).
{Durandfrom Br. Andrea’s notes.)
KHUSHMARA—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, south-west of Shiraz. It is the chief of a small
subdivision, which has some villages on the mountains, which pro
duce grapes and figs. The people trade in charcoal. {Belly.)
KHUSHT—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Marvdasht plain of Ears, 29 miles from Shiraz.
( W. 0. Report on Persia, Bart II, Route 86.)
KHUSLIK—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Marvdasht plain of Ears. {MacGregorh)
KHUSRABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A large village of Kurdistan, 116 miles north of Karrnanshah, on the
road to Tabriz. It contains three hundred houses, and is watered by
a stream flowing east. ( W. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 242.)
KHUSRAU SHlRlN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Ears, apparently about north-west from Kuh-i-Dina.
One of the confluents of the Kur rises close to it. {Burand.)
KHUSRUABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A garden situated \ mile south-east of Sihna in Persian Kurdistan.
It is a piece of ground 100 yards square, divided into smaller
squares by avenues of poplars with one grand centre avenue.
{Rich.)
KHUT—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Southern Khuzistan, near Dorak, inhabited by the Almu-
Kadam section of the Chab tribe. {Belly.)
KH0ZISTAN—Lat. 30° to 32° 30'. Long. 48° to 51°. Elev.
A province of Persia, situated in its extreme south-west corner. It
is bounded north and east by Luristan and the Bakhtiarl mountains,
south by the province of Ears and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and west by the
Shatt-ul-Arab and the Pashalik of Baghdad.
Layard gives the following boundaries of Khuzistan :—
“ The following are at present generally considered as its proper
boundaries :—To the north and east the mountains of the great chain
on which the first snow usually falls; to the west the river Karkhah,
although the pastures on its western bank are inhabited by tribes
under the Wall (Governor) of Hawizah, and are usually considered
as Persian ground ; to the south the Jarahi or Kurdistan river, and a
line drawn across the desert from the Karun to the Karkhah, a few
miles above the junction of each of the rivers with the Shatt-ul-Arab,
or Euphrates ; to the east the Kurdistan. Within this province, there
fore, are included the towns of Shustar, Dizful and Hawizah, the
plain of Ram Hurmuz, the Bakhtiaris, part of the Faili and part of
the Chab Arabs : the latter tribe, however, have hitherto been assessed

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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:

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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