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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [352r] (708/1278)
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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GAIAZAN—
A clan of the Qashqai Iliats, inhabiting the tract between Khaniak-i-
Zanjin, to Tul-i-Khusru in ’Arabistan. They only number 200 families.—
(Ross.)
GAHB/G, GEHRU or KARRG— Elev. 6,940'.
Sometimes pronounced Goharu, meaning “ the jewels.” A village in
the district of Chehar Mahal, in the province of Iraq, about 60 miles
directly south-west of Isfahan. The village is treeless, but stands in the
midst of broad green fields. There is a good deal of poppy grown here,
and various mints and other herbs from which medicinal preparations
are extracted. The place is well watered by a brook, which rises in a
gorge leading to Chigakhur and tumbles over two mill-heads above the
village. There are also two springs from the northern hill.— (Stack —
Schindler.)
GAIG— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district of Southern ’Arabistan, 4 miles east of
Ramu town.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
GAIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain range in Ears to north of the Kur river, before it reaches the
plain of Marvdasht.— (Durand.)
GAIR-I-ARDAKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range in Ears running north-west and south-east, about 60 miles from
Shiraz. A steep mule track leads over it due to Ardakan. On the top
is a sma Apring.— (Durand.)
GAIVIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village 6 miles from Kirimun, at the foot of the north slopes of
Kuh-i-Kishi.— (Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907.)
GAKUM— Lat. 28° 13' N. ; Long. 55° 52' E. ; Elev. 2,250'.
A village in Kirman, 106f miles from Saidabad on the road to Banda
’Abbas. It consists of about 70 houses backed by large plantations, contain
ing some 2,000 date-palms and watered by a small irrigation canal. It
lies at the south-western corner of the province, of which the boundaries run
from here north and east.— (Galindo, November 1888.)
GAL-I-GAN, GARDAN-I— Elev. 10,050'.
A pass in the Bakhtiari country, over a spur joining the Kuh-i-Rang
and Zardeh Kuh mountains, the descent from which westwards leads
towards the Gukun valley.— (Sawyer, 1890.)
GALLANDAR—
A tribe of the Bala Girieh group of Luristan (q.v.).
GALLEHDAR— Lat. 27° 40' ; Long. 52° 40' ; Elev. 2,137'.
A town in the S.-E. corner of Ears proper, 8 miles inland as the crow
flies, midway between Tahiri and Naband. It is the headquarters of a dis
trict of the same name. It was formerly under Laristan, but it is now direct
ly under the Governor-General of Ears at Shiraz; the headman in 1911
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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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