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BANDER LINGAH, or LINGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANDER LINGAH, or LINGA , a See also:

town of See also:Persia on the See also:northern See also:shore of the See also:Persian Gulf and about 300 M. by See also:sea from See also:Bushire, in 26° 33' N., 54° 54' E. Pop. about 1o,000. It forms See also:part of the administrative divisions of the " Persian Gulf ports," whose See also:governor resides at Bushire. The See also:annual value of the exports and imports from and into Bander Lingah from 1890 to 1905 averaged about £800,000, but nearly See also:half of that amount is represented by pearls which pass in transit from the See also:fisheries on the Arab See also:coast to Bombay. Like many other Persian Gulf ports, Bander Lingah was for many generations a hereditary patrimony of the See also:Sheikh of an Arab tribe, in this See also:case the Juvasmi tribe, and it was only in 1898 that the See also:Arabs were expelled from the See also:place by a Persian force. It is the See also:chief See also:port for the Persian See also:province of See also:Laristan (under See also:Fars), and has a thriving See also:trade with Bahrein and the Arab coast. It has a See also:British See also:post See also:office, and the steamers of the British See also:India See also:Company See also:call there weekly. Of the 133,000 tons of See also:shipping which in 1905 entered the port 104,500 were British.

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