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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [45v] (95/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. 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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T8
BAG—BAH
BlGH-I-SHAIKH—
A village 5 miles east-south-east of Saveh on the road to Kum from that
place.— \Abbott.)
BAGH-I-ZUMURRUD—
A royal garden in the valley of ’AH, 10 miles from Damavand. Prob
ably the same as Takht-i-Zumurrud (q.v.). — (Morier.)
BlGHKHAN—
The local name for the mountains, which shut in on either side the val
ley of the Cham-i-Garan in Kurdistan. They are sometimes called the
Kuh-i-Cham-i-Garan and form part of the great Zagros range. It is
traversed here by the Sinneh-Sulaimanieh road.— (Plowden.)
BAGHLASHAH—
A village of 15 houses, to the right of the Tabrlz-Kirmanshah road about
62 miles from Kirmanshah.— (Napier.)
BAGHLUJEH—(Bagh-i-alucheh, plum-garden).
A village in Khamseh, 17 miles from Zinjan, to the left of the road thence
to Tabriz.— (Schindler.)
BAGLAUN— also Bugalan, Boulan
A village in the Ardabil district of Azarbaljan. It is situated between
' Ardabil and Namln on the road to Astara.— (Holmes; Todd.)
BAHAMBER—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali.
BAHAR—
A village of 300 houses situated in the open plain and surrounded by cul
tivation (principally wheat), about 7 milts from Hamadan on the road to
Bijar.— (Inzar Gul.)
BAHARLtj—
A tribe of Persia, who were originally a section of the Shamlu, brought
from Syria by Timur. They were one of the Turkish Kizilbash tribes {q.v).
They now number 2,500 families, half residing in Ears, half in Azarbaljan.
— (Schindler.)
BAHLUN (?)—
A village, 11| miles from Kashan, on the road to Tehran.
BAHRAMABAD (spelt in original “ Bairamabad ”) (1)—
A village, 11 miles from Tehran, on the road to Saveh— (Abbott.)
BAHRAMABAD (2)—
A village in Kurdistan, 11 miles from Sinneh, on the road to Hamadan.—
(Kinneir.)
BAHRAMAbAD-I-PAIN and B AHRAMAbAD-I-BALA-
Two small villages in Lower Silakhur containing 20 to 30 houses, about
31 miles from Burujird on the road to Isfahan. The villages are on the bounda
ry of Silakhur and the Bakhtiari country.— (Schindler; McLachlan.)
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, 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.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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