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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [412v] (829/1278)
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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near, and the mountains on the southern aspect are quite bare of trees.
The road from the Mama pass to Tumatuma runs through Hazir Mil.—
(Burton.)
HlADIR—
A sub-division of the Bani Saleh tribe (q.v.).
HILALAT—
A section of the Muhaisin tribe (q.v.).
HILALEH, vide GARGAR (AB-I-).
HILISAT— Lat. 31° 44' N. ; Long. 50° 41' E. ; Elev. 4,850'.
A village in the Bakhtiari country, situated in a valley of the same name,
through which the Bakhtiari caravan road runs for a few miles on leaving
the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
at Sarkhun, on its 8th stage from Isfahan. The valley
runs almost due north and south, the village being situated on the left bank
of a stream of the same name. The valley is well cultivated with wheat
and barley, but the village itself has a poor aspect and supplies are scarce
at some seasons of the year. It belongs to peasant proprietors. 54,000 lbs.
of grain and 13,000 lbs. of rice are sown annually. The number of houses
is estimated, in 1906, at 400, and of fighting-men at 500. The livestock
comprises 40 horses, 30 mules, 5,000 donkeys, 500 cattle and 2,000 sheep
and goats. 200,000 mans of wheat and barley are produced annually. 500
tumdns cash, 100 mans of rice and 30 of (jhi are paid in revenue annually.
There is a tax of 10 krdns on each mare, 5 krdns on each pair of oxen and
4 krdn on sheep.— (Preece, 1895 — Arhuthnot, 1905—Report of a Journey
through the Bakhtidri Country to Shushtar — Lorimer, 1906.)
HILISATI (AB-I-)— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,900' (at spring head).
A stream in the Bakhtiari country, which bursts out at the foot of a great,
precipitous wall of the Kuh-i-Sarkhun, immediately facing the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of the same name, and, running an almost due southerly course, waters the
Hilisat valley. The water at its spring head, where it is crossed by a wooden
bridge, is of crystal purity, and gushes out with such force as to form a fair
sized stream before it has run a course of 20 yards. Its total length is about
20 miles, when it falls into the Karun river at about the 152nd mile of
the latter’s course, and at 3,550 feet above sea-level.— (Arbuthnot, 1905.)
H1MMATABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 81 miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Yazd.
It contains about 60 houses, and has a qandt of brackish water. (Wood,
October 1899.)
HlMUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Tihran-Karvan district, 6 miles north-north-west of Var-
pusht to the left of the road from Isfahan to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
HINDARABl— Lat. (N. W. tower of village fort) 26° 41' 9"; Long. 53°
37' 31".
An island near the coast of the Shibkuh district: its eastern extremity
is about 4| miles west-north-west fo Chiru. Hindarabi is over 4 miles in
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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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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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