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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [216v] (437/1278)
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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CHAGftNU— Lat. Long. Elev.
An encampment of nomads, between Furg and Dehistan, on the road
from Lar to Kirman. It is in the district of Fars, and situated about 20
miles to the east of Furg.
The inhabitants are Persians, and are dwellers in tents rather than
nomads, for they have no separate summer and winter quarters, but remain
on these half-way mountain tops all the year round. They have orchards
and vineyards on the southern slopes.— (Stack.)
CIJAH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Fars, in the valley between the Marvdasht plain and
Arsinjan.— (Preece, 1892.)
CHAH ABU’ All—See CHAH BU-’ALl.
CHAH ’ALl— Lat. 28° 43' N. ; Long. 51° 16' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Fars, 9 miles west-north-west of Khur
muj. It contains 70 houses of Hajlan and Faqiheh, some of which are
built of stone.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAH ’ALAM— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,350'.
A well on the eastern borders of Fars, 22 miles of north of Bishneh.
It is a stone revetted well in the desert just large enough to allow a bucket
to go down. The water, which lies about 10 feet below the surface, is
slightly brackish. Dried roots and bushes here furnish a plentiful suppply of
firewood.— (Vaughan, 1887.)
CHAH AMBEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hauz in the district of Yazd, 24 miles west of Yazd town. It contains
water after rain.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
CHAH ’ARABI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village south west of Borazjun in the Dashtistan district of Fars. it
contains 30 houses. The inhabitants are Ban! Hajlr Arabs who are said
to have come from the Hindian district. They are Sunnis and speak both
Persian and Arabic. They own some 100 donkeys and cultivate wheat,
barley and a few dates. The village has been described as “ a halting-
place on the road from Bushire to Borazjun where there are two wells of
good water, ” but the authority for this report is not stated.— (Gazetteer,
Persia,, Part 111, I. B., 1885—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAHAR MAHAL— Elev. 6,500'.
The Chahar Mahal is an undulating plateau, situated to the south-west of
Isfahan, at an elevation of between 6,500 feet and 7,000 feet. It is most
easily accessible from Isfahan, and is entered from the north by the Gardan
Rukh (7,725'), about 45 miles to the south-west of that city. About 8
miles from the top of the pass, the village of Kava Rukh is reached, the
first within the Bakhtiari limits.
The plateau, which has an area of roughly 4,500 square miles being 45
miles from north to south by 100 from east to west, is intersected by several
rugged mountain ridges, rising to a height of from 3,000' to 5,000' above the
plateau ; while it is encircled by high mountain ranges from 10 , 000 ' to
14 .000' above the sea level.
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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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