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KISH, or KAIS (the first form is Persian and the second Arabic)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 836 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KISH, or KAIS (the first form is Persian and the second Arabic) , an
island
  in the Persian Gulf. It is mentioned in the 12th century as being the residence of an Arab pirate from Oman, who exacted a
tribute
  from the pearl fisheries of the gulf and had the title of " King of the Sea.," and it rose to importance in the
13th century with the fall of Siraf as a transit station of -the trade between India and the West. In the 14th century it was supplanted by
Hormuz
  and lapsed into its former insignificance. The
island
  is nearly ro m. long and 5 M. broad, and contains a number of small villages, the largest, Mashi, with about roo houses, being situated on its north-eastern corner in 26 34' N. and 54 2' E. The highest part of the island has an
elevation
  of 120 ft. The inhabitants are Arabs, and nearly all pearl fishers, possessing many boats, which they take to the pearl banks on the Arabian
coast
 . The water
supply
  is scanty and there is little vegetation, but sufficient for sustaining some flocks of sheep and goats and some cattle. Near the centre of the north
coast
  are the ruins of the old city, now known as Harira, with remains of a mosque, with octagonal columns, rnasonry, water-cisterns (two 150 ft. long, 40 ft. broad, 24 ft. deep) and a fine underground canal, or aqueduct, half a mile long and cut in the solid
rock
  20 ft. below the surface. Fragments of glazed tiles and brown and blue pottery, of thin white and blue Chinese
porcelain
 , of green celadon (some with white scroll-
work
  or figures in relief), glass beads, bangles, &c., are abundant.
Kish
  is the Kataia of Arrian; Chisi and Quis of Marco Polo; Quixi, Queis, Caez, Cais, &c., of Portuguese writers; and Khenn, or Kenn, of English.


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