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BALUCHISTAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALUCHISTAN , a See also:

province of See also:Persia consisting of the western See also:part of Baluchistan (q.v.) in a wider sense. See also:Persian Baluchistan has an See also:area of about 6o,000 sq. m., and lying along the nor- therm See also:shore of the Arabian See also:Sea, is bounded E. by See also:British and See also:independent Baluchistan, N. by See also:Seistan and the central Persian See also:desert, and W. by See also:Kerman. The See also:country has little See also:water and only a small part of it is under cultivation, the See also:remainder being composed of arid, waterless plains, deserts—some stony, others with moving sands—barren hills and mountains. The See also:principal See also:rivers are the Mashkid and that of See also:Bampur which flow away from the sea and are lost in depressions called hamuns. The rivers which flow into the sea are unimportant and dry during the greater part of the See also:year. Persian Baluchistan forms an administrative See also:division of the province of Kerman and is sub-divided into the following twenty districts:—(r) Bampur; (2) Serhad; (3) Dizek; (4) Jalk; (5) Sib; (6) Irafshan; (7) Magas; (8) Serbaz; (9) Lashar; (To) Champ; (II) Fannuj; (12) Bazman; (13) Aptar; (14) Daman; (15) Aprandagan; (16) Asfehgeh; (17) Surmij; (18) Meskutan; (19) Pushteh; (20) See also:Makran, the country of the See also:Ichthyophagi, with the sub-districts Kasrkand, Geh, Bint, Dasht, Kucheh and Bahu. The See also:total See also:population of Baluchistan is under 200,000. The province was practically independent until the occupation of Bampur by Persian troops in 1849, and over some of the extreme eastern districts Persian supremacy was not recognized until 1872.

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