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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [246r] (496/1278)
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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CHI—CHU
239
it is exposed to easterly and south-easterly winds. The shore is flat and
sandy, the water is deep close to the beach, and little or no tidal stream is
felt in the exchange. A very small pearl-bank is said to be east of the village
at about | a mile off shore. There are steep hills inland of the village, which
is amply supplied from 5 reservoirs filled by their drainage. Chiru village
consists of about 200 houses of the ’Ubaidli ’Arab tribe, who are Sunnis.
They possess some fine trading vessels which run all over the Gulf, to ’Oman
and occasionally to Basrah ; also five pearl-boats which visit the western
coast of the Gulf and a dozen fishing baqdreks and suh-ais, which are used
for sea-fishing and in summer for pearling operations off the adjoining
island of Hmdarabi. The local authority is ’Abdullah-bin-Muhammad
Abdur-Rasul, ’Ubaidti tribe, but he ordinarily resides at Baikhih Armak?,
leaving a brother in charge of Cbirii. The revenue, amounting to 16,009
tiimans a year, is payable to the Governor of Bastak. There is here a post
of the Imperial Persian Customs.— Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHISTANAH— Lat. Long. Elev. 30'.
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in the Shaanil district, 15f miles from Bandar ’Abbas on
the road to Lar, and 3 miles from the coast. It has a cistern full of <mod
water.— (Butcher, April 1888—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHITTI or CHITTAR-Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in the Bakhtiari country, traversed by the Khulbar stream at
73 miles, on the track from Kaleh Bazuft to Shushtar. The ruins of an old
fort exist there, but no habitation. Water plentiful from the Khulbar
stream, but no Bupp\\^.—{McSwineij, 1891.)
CHORSANG MOUNTAAIN.
6 farsakhs from Mahsut-Bey, copper.— (Allahverdiantz, 1891.)
CHUGHAUSIR, vide KALEH-I-CHUGHA SURKH.
CHUGHAYAR— Lat. 28° 26' N.; Long. 51° 34' E.; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district situated about 8 miTos WAC'f Ktt
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHAKU(?) —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 10 miles north-west of Abadeh, on the west of the road
Long.
Elev.
CHUL (i.e., “ the desert ”)— Elev. 2,850'.
CHULAK IRALAl t,at> ha° q' at . t—a no , ^
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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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