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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎89v] (183/1278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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’AVI—’AZR
’AVIZEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
Avizeh, the name of the first stage on the kajileh route from Ahwaz to
Shushtar, consists of 250 houses.— (Yusuf Sharif, 1889.)
’AWAINAT—
A division of the Bani Tamim (q.v.).
’AWAMIR—
A division of the Hamaid tribe (q.v.).
AWAWIDEH—
A division of the Bavleh tribe (q.v.).
AYANlT or TUMBAK— Lat. 27° 43' N. ; Long. 52° 15' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Shlbkuh district of Ears, 12 miles south-east of Kangam
It contains 225 stone houses of Shafi’i Sunnis. The inhabitants are mer
chants, sailors, fishermen and pearl-divers, and also cultivate dates and *
grain. They have about a dozen trading sambuqs, plying all over the
Gulf and to Basrah and ’Oman, besides 7 fishing amilehs. There is a
date-grove at each end of the village and a reef of rocks forms the boat har
bour. This place is farmed for 650 tumans a year. There is a post of
the Imperial Persian Customs. On the coast a little to the east of ’Ayanat
is Ras Aswad, where there is a pearl bank. —( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer,
1908.)
AYISHABAD— Lat. 31° 51' N.; Long. 54° 28' E.
A village in Yazd, about 3 miles south of Yazd. It is situated on the
verge of an utterly sterile plain, but is itself surrounded by gardens.—
(Abbott.) b
’AYAISHEH—
A division of the Bam Tamim (q.v.).
AZAD BAKHT—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan (q.v.).
AZAFEH, vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
,’AZlZABAD (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village on the road from Khurramabad to Burujird at the foot
of the Razan or Tang-i-Mar ( pass of the snake ”) on its north side ; it
stands at the head of a gorge. In May barometer 24-70°. Height 5,050'.
(Report of a Journey through the Bakhtidri Country to Shushtar.)
’AZIZABAD (2)—Lat. Long. , Elev.
A village on the Kamand Ab river in Western Burbarud, Burujird pro
vince, south of Darreh-i-Shiraz on the road from Burujird to Isfahan.—
(Schindler.)
’AZRAT —Lat. Long. Elev.
A long island in the river Ka un, 4 miles below Kut-ul-’Abld. — (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)

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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).

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 636), 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.

Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.

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1 volume (635 folios)
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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 637; 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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