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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [254v] (513/1278)
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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DAM DALTI, RDKHANEH-I—vwie DALLIEH-AB-I-.
DAMAVAND Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley, vide Ab-i-Sard.
DAM NALU— Lat. 28° 33' N. ; Long. 51° 20' E. ; Elev.
A village of the Dashti district, situated about 10 miles south-south-west
of Khurmuj town on the west side of the Khurmuj valley. It consists of 50
houses of Sadat, Khajaha, and Jatut. There are 7 horses, 10 mules, 30
camels, 80 donkeys, 40 cattle, 1,500 sheep and goats, and 6,000 date-
palms.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
DAMUKH—
A tribe of Arab descent, who formerly resided in the village of Chah
Kutah in the Bushire division of Ears. They were formerly a very brave,
ancient, and independent race, and had always behaved well to the Persian
Government ; but they possessed the finest breed of horses in the province,
and, in order to gain possession of these, the Vazir of Fars had the tribe ex
terminated. That he was not successful in this nefarious plan is proved
by the fact that the Damukh are still found in a group of settlements in
the south-east corner of the Dashtistan districts, Ohah Kutah being the
largest. The Damukh are said to be connected with the Dawasi of
Bahrain, and were, until recently (1905), all Sunnis. They speak Arabic,
as well as Persian,— -{Ouseley — Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
DANAKl— Lat. 27° 51' N. ; Long. 51° 54' E .; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of F’ars on the coast between Daiyir and
Batuneh. It contains 15 houses of Arabs from Bastaneh, nearLingeh.
The people are fishermen and cultivate dates and corn. They have two
large mdshuvehs and 6 fishing-boats.— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
DAND—Lat. Long. Elev.
A camping-ground of Kindazdlls near Shushtar in Khuzistan.—
(P. J. C. Robertson.)
DAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, 1 stage beyond Ram Hormuz on the road
from Shushtar to Behbehan, some 120 miles from the former. It is situ
ated on the river which skirts the valley of Ram Hormuz.
DARA (1)—
A village in the Mian Kuh sub-division of the province of Yazd.—
{MacGregor.)
DARA (2)—Lat. 30° 4' 22" ; Long. 49° 5' 50" ; Elev.
A low and swampy island, 3 miles south-west of Bunneh, on the coast of
Khuzistan. There is a deep water khur between them running to the south
ward, called Khur Wasita.— {Constable—Stiffe —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot—
Bruchs.)
DARAB District —
A district of Ears about 145 miles south-east of Shiraz measured to its
capital town Darab or Drabgird {q.v.). The district extends 50 miles east
and west and 27 miles north and south. The soil of the district is reputed
to be of great fertility in many places, and, when rain falls in sufficient
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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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