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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [150r] (304/1278)
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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BAN—BAN
143
03 '
Division.
Sub-Division.
Fighting
strength.
Hamuoi .
Zuhairieh
80
Do .
Huwaishim .
350
Do .
Mir’ai . . • •
50
Do. .
Dirairat
30
Halaf..
Suwaijit
160
Do. .
Al Bu Ghurbeh .
230
Do. .
Hiyadir
550
Do
Al Bu ’Abiiiyid .
450
Do. .
Sudan . . • •
350
Do. .
Braiheh
200
Do. .
Bani Sakain
200
Remarks.
Nil.
This sub-division are
among the marsh-
dwellers.
Ditto
Nil.
This sub-division are
among the marsh-
dwellers.
Nil.
Tiie Hatal division were originany — *
among the Bam Turuf and perhaps also among the Bam Tumim.—{McDouall
—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
BANlSHAN— Lat. 33° T N.; Long. 47° 35' E.; Elev. 2,950'.
The name of a cultivated valley constituting the uppermost part of the
Rudbar district of Luristan, and of a camp of the Lurs containing some
50 huts, situated above the valley. The camp lies 99 miles west of Khurram-
abad on the road to Deh Bala. The valley lies along the right bank of the
Saimarreh river just where it issues from the feaza-Bin gorge. icre is^a
large area of richly cultivated and irrigated lands. Large flocks and herds
are owned. The Saimarreh river is here fordable at some points. Bamshan
lies within the territory of the Vail of-Pusht-i-Kuh. (Burton.)
BANl TAMIM (1)—
A division of the Bani Hardan tribe (q.v.).
BANl TAMIM (2) (Tribe)—
A large and powerful Arab tribe in Southern ’Arabistan They are tent-
dwellers, and range the drier parts of the country between the rivers Karun,
Shatt-al-’Arab and Tigris. Unlike most of the tribes of the province, in
religion they are Sunni Muhammadans, and in their mode of life also they
differ considerably from the other Arab tribes of ’Arabistan. They are said
to be of Muntafik extraction. Their territory in Southern .Arabistan in
cludes the right bank of the river Karun between Milaihan and Sab eh and
they may be found anywhere to the west of that line up to the Turkish fron
tier. In summer the bulk of the tribe approach the Karun m the date
season they encamp on the left bank of the Shatt-al-’Arab between Nashveh
and D’aiil, where many of them own date plantations ; m winter and spring
they occupy the western end of their country, but a few of the Ayaisheti
section sometimes encamp and cultivate in the cold weather at i aqtii,
and others more regularly appear at Qajarleh. There is no estimate of
their numbers by sections, but their strength is reckoned at 1,000 unmounted
and 2,000 mounted men, part of the latter being camel-riders and their
PL I. 0
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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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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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