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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [207v] (419/988)
The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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A small lllat tribe in Ears living in the Ardakan district. They muster
some 30 families only and speak a Lur dialect.— Durand.)
RAISAbAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Abrquh district of Pars, near Shamsabad ( 6 ), and some
4 miles north-east of Abrquh town. Plentiful and good water is obtain
able from qandts in winter, but in summer it becomes scant and salt.
{Newcomen, 1905.)
RAJAIBAT—
A section of the Sharifat tribe fq. r.)
RAKi—
A sub-division of the Duraki tribe of the Haft Lang Bakhtiari. See
BakhtIarI.
RALEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Pars between Khan-i-Kat and Khirameh on the road from
Kirman to Shiraz. (Lovett.)
RAMAWANDl—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan [q.v.).
RAM HORMUZ (District and Town) —vide RAMUZ.
RAMJIRD (RUDKHANEH-I-)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A torrent of considerable size flowing east into the Sivand river about
^ mile east of the Pul-i-Khan, whereby the Shiraz-Isfahan road crosses the
Ramjird river at a point about 26 miles west of Shiraz. The liver is said
to rise in the mountains to north-west and to be derived from several
springs, notably those located at Puna, Sabz Kuh, Ganduman, and its main
tributary is the Rud Khaneh-i-Maleh. The plain of the same name is to
the west of Persepolis. {Wilson, 1907.)
RAMLEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A place marked by sand-hills on the Ram Hormuz plain, Khuzistan, to
left of the road from Shakheh to the village of Ram Hormuz. It was for
merly the residence of the Shaikh of Ram Hormuz. {Baring.)
RAMUZ— Lat. 31° 10' N.; Long. 49° 48' E.; Elev.
Also called Ram Hormuz and Suq Ram Hormuz, is the chief town of the
district of the same name. It stands 2 or 3 miles from the right bank of
the Ramuz river about 12 miles above its junction with the Kurdistan river
and is situated about 48 miles due east of, and 60'miles by road from, Ahwaz.
The hills of the Bakhtiari country begin about 2 or 3 miles north of the
place. Ramuz is a thriving place, its position, at a point where several rivers
meet and at the foot of a gorge leading through the mountains to Shiraz,
making it naturally a place of importance. It consists of about 600 houses;
most of these are of mud, but a few are of brick and plaster, the latter being
the property of the Bakhtiari Khans who reside at Ramuz in winter. 4 he
population is about 8,000 souls, and consists entirely of a class of mixed
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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).
Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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