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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [542r] (1088/1278)
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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KAS—KAT
535
54-2,
side before. The descendants of his brother Haji ’Abbas ’Ali are still settled
in the direction of Gallehdar and Qir and Karzln, and the tribe is apparently
known not as Kashkull, but as (Afshar) Kirmani. All Kashkulis meet
round the Kuh-i-Mihr (Qumeir) in the summer. Qasim Khan and his
brothers had a numerous progeny, so that the Khans say that of their
grandfathers’ descendants they can muster a hundred riflemen. The
late Ilyas Khan was famed throughout southern Persia for his extra-
oridnary strength.
The
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, Saulat-ud-Dauleh, is not only the son of a Kashkuli mother,
but he is married to a daughter of Haji ’Abdullah Khan, nephew of Qasim
Khan : his wife’s sister is married to Haidar ’Ali Khan Kashkull, brother of
Muhammad ’Ali Khan. Like the Ilbegi, Saulat-us-Sultaneh, some of the
younger Kashkuli Khans have begun to take lessons in English.
Owing to the character and warlike qualities of Muhammad ’Ali Khan
and Muhammad Beg, 1 he Kashkulis have acquired great importance. There
is usually enmity between the two sections, led by the brothers, but they
once joined to oppose Saulat-ud-Dauleh.
The Kashkfilis are said to breed mules, of which they own 400. (See
also under Qashqai.)— (Chick, 1912.)
KASHKUN—
A village about 90 miles west-north-west of Kirman. Abundance
of good water. Cultivation : wheat, cotton, til. Population, 150 houses.
Livestock : 100 donkevs, 20 camels, 1,000 sheep and goats.— (Slier Jang,
1902.)
KASILTERA SHUN— Lat. . Long. Elev. 4,230'.
An encampment and clump of date-trees in Ears, 12| miles north-east of
Furg and at the northern end of the Tang-i-Abdan pass. Plentiful water
is obtainable here from a stream.— (Vaughan, 1887.)
KASSAD (?) (Lar)—Lat. 27° 24' N. ; Long. 52° 38' E. ; Elev.
A large runied village about a mile eastward of Ras Naband, Persian
Gulf. — (Constable — Stifle —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot.)
KASSATU —Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass in Ears between Mubarakabad and Baba Najm. It leads
from Jehrum into the district of Karzin.— (Abbott.)
KATHlR (AI), vide AL KATHIR.
KATI—
A small stream which crosses the road from Shahpur to Nuriibad, about
15 miles north-west of the former place.— (Grahame, 1908.)
KATSHU— Lat. 32' 22' N. ; Long, 51' 19' E. ; Elev.
A village in Ears, on the left of the road going from Isfahan to Shushtar,
between Bagh-i-Vahsh and Qehfarukh.— (Schindler.)
KATUNI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the plain of Dasht-i-Bir, between the Kutal-i-Dukhtar and
Kutal-i-Plr Zan, on the road from Bushire to Shiraz in Ears, near the
village of ’Abdul (q.v.).—(Routes in Persia, Section 1, Ed. 1898.)
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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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