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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎190v] (385/1278)

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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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BUN—BUN
inhabited by original Persians, and a small fort with towers. Dates, wheat
and barley are grown here, and some wool is exported to Bushire via Shif.
The villagers own 20 horses, 15 mules, 100 cattle, 200 donkeys and 500
sheep and goats.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.
BUNARI SUL AIM ANI— Lat. 29° 19' N.; Long. 51° 4' E.; Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, on the left bank of the Bud
Hilleh stream, 4 miles east of Bunari Qaid. It contains a small four-towered
fort, and 100 houses inhabited by original Persians. The crops include
wheat and barley, and the village livestock comprises about 20 horses and
200 donkeys, 15 mules, 100 cattle, 500 sheep and goats.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BUNAliZ— Lat. 28° 57' N. ; Long. 51° 8' E, ; Elev.
Same as Buneh Gaz (?).
A village 19| miles east of Bushire and f mile north of the Jehrum road,
surrounded by vegetable gardens and date plantations. The water of the
village is said by the natives to be good, while all round it is very bad.
It is said by the natives to contain 300 houses, with 200 men fit for service;
it possesses several small square tufangchi towers.-—(Butcher — Stotherd.)
BUNE’SH KATtJ, KUH—
A range of hills in Laristan, about 3 miles south-west of Ivaz. It is
crossed at an elevation of 4,969 feet by the Tang-i-Lizdar (q.v.).—(Butcher,
1888.)
BUNJU— Lat. 28° 28' N. ; Long, 51° 12' E. ; Elev.
A village on the coast of the Tangistan district of Ears, 5 miles south-
south-east of Bulkhair. It contains about a dozen houses inhabited by
fishermen, who own a couple of varjis and are also cultivators.—(Pemim
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
BUNKHATIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of hills in Ears, south of Shiraz.— (Durand.)
BUNNEH— Lat. 30° 7' 48" N. ; Long. 49° 10' 18" E. ; Elev.
An island in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. off the coast of Khuzistan, east of Bandar
Ma’shur. It is narrow and low, being about 3i miles long. It has the
ruins of an old fort on it. (Brucks.)
BUNNEH ’ABDULLAH JARRAH, vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
BUNNEH AHMAD—
A village in the Liravi district, about 5 miles east of Chah Tahl. It
has 35 houses. Wheat and barley are grown and the livestock consists
of a few horses, 200 donkeys, 100 cattle and 500 sheep and goats.— (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
BUNNEH BAUD, vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
BUNNEH DARAZl— Lat. 28° 35' N. ; Long, 51° 33' E.; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 10 miles south-east of Khurmujy
| mile south of the road to Lavar, at the foot of the Kuh-i-Kaki.- (Butcher t
1888.)

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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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