'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [188r] (380/652)
The record is made up of 1 volume (322 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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and passages where lived the robber bands and outlaws who raided the
plains of Sarhad and Bazman in the days gone by. The climate is perfect
and game very abundant.—(Brazier-CVm^, 1893.)
KUSHA— Elev. 6,650'.
A village in the valley of the same name in the Sarhad district, about 25
miles west of Vasht.—(Srazier-Creap/i, 1894.)
kUshAn—
A place in Persian BalQchistan, on the eastern side of the Magas plain,
about 7f miles from that place and 8 miles from the halting-place on
the Chehar Rukan Kaur (q,v.). It is described as a small square tower, with
a little cultivation, and a date-grove, on the banks of a pleasant brook
running from the north-west. The plain slopes to the south-east, and is
better clothed with vegetation than usual.
Between Kushan and the Chehar Rukan Kaur, the last 4 miles of the
road is hilly, but presents no formidable difficulties.— {St. John.)
KtSHEH—
A village in Qishm Island [q.v.).
KUSHKT} —Elev. about 290'.
A considerable village, 50 miles north-east of Bandar Abbas, on the
Kirman road. It consists of some 60 houses and huts, situated on a knoll
north of some date groves. There is a considerable amount of cultivation;
large henna, tobacco and onion gardens are seen, and several fine orange
and lime trees are scattered about the date-groves. The inhabitants,
who are of mixed Baluch and Negro race, are miserable and sickly-look-
mg and complain of being plundered by the Bandar Abbas officials.
They own flocks, and there is good grazing in the district. Kuzehs,
or porous water bottles of whitish clay, are made here. *Supplies are
procurable in moderate quantities j fuel is abundant. Good camel-grazing
over the plain. The water was reported in 1894 as good and abundant,
and in 1905 as b&d..—{Brazier-Creagh, 1894\ Newcomen, 1905.)
KUSH PALANG—
A village on the Tehrfld {q.v.) in Kirman.
KUSICHl—
. A date-grove with small groups of huts on the right bank of the Kajfl
river, on the Bampur-Chahbar route, 92| miles from Bampur. Fuel,
forage and camel-grazing plentiful. No supplies. Water from river —
{Grey, 1900.)
KUSRUD—
halting-place in Kirman, 124 miles on the road from the town of
1 toFarah Dry well. No house.—(War Office Report on Persia,
Part II, Route No. 128.)
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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 323.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).
Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; 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 also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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