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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎544v] (1093/1278)

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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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538
KAZ—KAZ
of the late Khwajeh Ibrahim. Three generations ago this family emigrated
from the Khwajeh family of the Haft Long branch of the Bakhtiaris. He
is connected by marriage with the Sadar-i-Naidun.
The village of the Shahpur end of the valley are in the hands of the
Kashkull Khans, who encamp on the banks above the Shahpur river,
spring and autumn. Similarly the caravansarai Khwajeh Ibrahim, off
the end of the Tang-i-Turkan, is occupied by Kashkull tribesmen and others.
Daris is a large village with some 100 tufangchis ruled by Darodar Rajab.
Pul-i-Abgineh is in the independent control of Muhammad Isma’il Khan,
its Kadkhudd, who is a near relation of the Kadkhuda of Kaluni in the
Dasht-i-Barm. The Kunja’-i-Khamseh were owned by the Imam Juma
of Shiraz, but the Kashkuli and Farsimaidan Khans forcibly took posses
sion of them in the autumn of 1911.
Monthly average thcrmemeter readings for the station of Kdzarun—May 1881
to April 1883.
Months.
1881.
1882.
1883.
Maxi
mum,
2-30 p.m.
Mini
mum,
6 A.M.
Maxi
mum,
2-30 p.m.
Mini
mum,
6 A.M.
Maxi
mum,
2-30 p.m.
Mini
mum,
6 A.M.
January
...
57 00
45-32
57 96
45-41
Febuary
...
...
59-25
42-25
57-28
42-28
March
...
...
63-90
51-64
61-10
50-43
April
...
73-70
64-03
74-00
57-80
May
90-83
79-74
88-61
77-48
...
June
96-00
8400
1C 1.06
89-36
July
99-87
88-87
102-86
89-67
...
August
99-87
89-29
103-41
84-96
...
September .
94-83
85-50
90-13
78-93
....
...
October
85-70
73-93
84-93
74-19
...
November .
74-12
66-20
74-96
64-93
...
...
December .
61-83
49-35
63-09
49-61
...
(Kinneir — Monteith — Clerk — Abbott — St. John — Felly — Jones — Ross —
(Idling — Curzon, 1889 — Newcomen, 1908 — Gibbon, 1908 — Chick, 1912 —
Wilson t 1916.)

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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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