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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [180r] (364/1278)
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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BIR—BIR
173
low ridges to north. Water from several cisterns (2 in good repair) ; sup
plies and fuel scanty; grazing poor ; population about 300.
The plain is dotted about with several wells and is cultivated, for the
most part, with wheat and barley. The new serai of Shiir on the Rarab
road is visible east, at the foot of a low ridge.
An Imamzadeh with blue dome stands near the village. The large
serai is said to have been built by Shah ’Abbas.
Roads diverge to Dehaku Shur, Kurdeh (direct) and Binaru.— {Wilson
and Cruikshank, 1907.)
BIRKEHDIN—
A village in Laristan, 30 miles from Lingeh and 85 miles from Lar.
There is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
near this. It is situated in a desert, and tjiere
are no supplies ; the only water is from reservoirs.— {Jones — Felly.)
BIRKEH DARAZ— Lat. 27° 11' N. ; Long. 55° 4G' E.
A cistern in Laristan, 37 miles from Bandar ’Abbas, on the road to Lar.
It is in good repair and full of .water. There is excellent grazing in the
vicinity during the cold weather.— {Shakesj)ear, 1905.)
BIRKEH-I-BURJ—
Two cisterns, giving good water in March 1907, 8 miles east of Lar on
the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar road. No population.— {Wilson and Cruikshank,
1907.)
BIRKEH-I-MlRZA— Elev. 100'.
An open cistern, 8 miles from Khan-i-Surkh on the Bandar ’Abbas-Lar
road. It contained a little water in March 1907.—( Wilson and Cruikshank,
1907.)
BIRKEH JANGUl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in the Bastak district of Laristan, about 35 miles from Bandar
’Abbas, and | mile south of the road from that place to Lar. It consists
of only 6 huts, but the inhabitants own about 100 sheep and goats, and
15 cattle and donkeys. There is good grazing in the vicinity.
Half a mile north of the village, on the edge of the road, is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
,
with water from a well and 2 good cisterns.— {Butcher, 1888 — Shakespear,
1905.)
BIRKEH LURA, see TUDIRlN.
BIRKEH MAL-I-HAJI ’ABDUL HORMUZ!, see BIRKEH-ZIR-I-jGrAR-
DANEH.
BIRKEH MlAN-BAR—
A cistern of good water in the Bastak district of Laristan, about 44 miles
west of Bandar c Abbas and | mile south of the road from that place to Lar.
There are traces of old houses in the neighbourhood, but no habitations.—•
{Shakespear, 1905.)
BIRKEH NUH— Elev. 910'.
A serai and cistern (containing good water in March 1907) 6 stages from
Bandar ’Abbas, on the road to Lar. It is situated on a stony plateau 3
miles broad, intersected by ravines some 100 deep : fron^this point the
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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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