Persia / [prepared ... under the direction of K. Mason].

  • Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division.
Date:
1945
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Persia / [prepared ... under the direction of K. Mason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    538; language, 324, 407, 535; railway companies, 549; revival, 306-13; Revolution, 299-301, 537; Sanitary Council, 409; -speaking population, 324, 366, 368, 383-4, 387, 389-90, 392. Persian Gulf, 18-19, 21, 25, 59, 119 ff., 269, 276-7, 281-4, 289, 292-3, 325; climate, 119-20, 156, 158, 160, 165, 168-9, 172, 176-7, 181; coast, 119- 30; diseases, 414-15; drainage, 26, 119; fauna, 211, 213, 215-18, 220, 222-3; fisheries, 456-7, 500; oil, 120, 495; ports, 120, 496 ff.; quarantine service, 412; roads, 120-1; vegetation, 119, 205-6. Persians, 55, 120, 133, 215, 318 ff., 362, 364, 372, 378, 3 Persis, 224-6, 238-9. pests, 438. Peter the Great, 271-2, 285, 532. petroleum, 298, 481, 483; products, export, 482-4, 486; see also oil. pheasant, 40. phenol, 463. Phraortes (Khshathrita), 226. physical characteristics of people, 322-4. pig, wild, 41, 117, 154, 211. pigeon-towers, 435; dung, 444. pilau, 352. Pilgrim, G. E., 11. pilgrimages, 43, 327, 528-31. Pilgrimes of Purchas, 267. pipe-lines, oil, 489-91, 515. Pir, 330; -i- -Bazar, railway, 147, 549; Shoran, 113; Zaghe, ee ee piracy, 292. Pish-i-Kuh, 63, 325; livestock, 449-50; population, 343, 360, 367-70. Pishvah, r.s., 571. pistachios, 444, 451, 453. Pizhder tribe, 369. place-names, 9-10, 556. plague, 412-13, 533, 536. plane (tree), 456. Plataea (battle), 227. playing cards, 486. ploughs, 434-6, 447. plums, 192-3, 198, 201, 444, 451. Podgurskaya, r.s., 575. poisons, 463; trade, 486. police, 397, 478. political parties, 395. politics, Abbasid, 254; Sassanid, 240. poll tax, 259. Polybius, 424. polygamy, 339, 346-7. pomegranates, 36, 147, 193-4, 198, 206, 444, 451, 454. Pompeius Magnus, 235. poplar, 37-9, 192, 198, 200-1, 456. population, 5; distribution, 356-93; 629 ports, 6, 120, 145, 316, 496-514, 551. Portuguese, 131-3, 135, 269, 282-3, 500, 502. postal service, 296. posting-stations, 381. potassium salts, 463-4, 466. potteries, 462, 522. Pottinger, Eldred, 289. poultry, 133, 450. power, 459. precipitation, 179-87, 595-6. Presbyterian Mission, American, 333. press, freedom of the, 395. pressure (atmospheric), 160. Prester John, 259. Priests’ Fire, 247. Prime Minister, 394-5. printing presses, 296. projects, irrigation, 429-31. Proserpine rock, 137. provinces, 7-8, 396-7. Public, Debt, Loeees health, 309, 408- 13; Works, 475. Pudar, 503. Pul-i-Abrisham, 576; Allah Verdi Khan, 520-1; Duab, 59; Dukhtar, 62-3, r.s., 573; Fasa, 76; Hawa, 64; Khaju, 521; Khan, 76; Khatun, 115; Kul, 64; Rud, 149, 362; Safid, railway, 555, 567-8, r.s., 569; Zal, 79. Pulvar R., 374, 376. pumps, 555. Purchas, 267. Pusht-i-Kuh (Gilan), 36; (Luristan), 63, 79-80, 296, 325, 338, 343, 360, 367-8, 370, 452. Puzim, bay, 141; Ras, 141. Qadis, 327. Qadisiya, 251. Qaid Rahmat, 370. Qaim, Caliph, 257. Qain, 108-9, 389, 447; highland, 3, 35, 107-10, 357, 360, 385, 388-9, 454; roads, 545. Qais, island, 120, 127, 130. Qajars, 5, 42, 263, 280-1, 285-301, 526, 529, 531, 534, 538. Qalah Kuh, 64. Qaleh-i-Ardashir, 527; Dukhtar, 527; Gul, 68; Kalat, 68; Nadir, 82; Shahr halt, 560; Tul, 81. ganats, 33, 45, 69, 73, 109, I14, 200, 206, 237, 345, 358, 363, 365, 380, 383, 385-6, 380, 391, 411, 424-5, 437, 451, 453-4, 456, 541; construction, 424-5. Oanun (newspaper), 299. Qara, Chai, 89; Chi (gipsies), 343; Dagh, 49, 52, 365-6; Qum desert, 32, 39, 222; Sit, 89; Su (Aras basin), 49; Su (Gurgan), 153; Su (Saidmarreh),