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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [46v] (97/706)
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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BAI—BAJ
80
BAIRAM (2)—
A large village in Azarbaljan, 14 miles south-west of Tabriz. {Schindler.)
BAIRAM (3)—
A village containing 150 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, 3 miles
west of Marand on the road to Khoi, the last village on the south of the road.
—{Picot, 1894.)
BAIRlWA—
A village in Kurdistan, about 5 miles north-west of Ruvansir and on the
north of the Ruvansir-Juanru road. It contains about 15 houses, inhabited
by Kurds, Sunnis, and is on undulating ground, has some cultivation, and
good and extensive grazing. Water from a stream. Supplies : 50 cows,
100 sheep and go&ta.—(Vaughan.)
BAITUSH—
A village in the Zagros range, on the route from Sulaimanleh via Mosnair
and the Daruh mountain into Kurdistan.—(W. O., Persia.)
BAITYlRAVAND (BAKHTYARAVAND)—Zanganeh.
The Baityaravands are a branch of the Sinjabis, but have severed their
connection with the tribe and are now attached to the Zanganehs. The Bait-
varavands who have remained are" a small tribe and inhabit the villages of
Siah-Siah’GurgabI, Tamtam, Birda, and Gumishtar, furnish _ some 50
sowars to the Government and are under the authority of Zahlr-ul-Mulk,
Zanganeh. Their chief is Riza Sultan. ,. . » -.r.
Some Baityaravands have settled in other villages of the district of Kir-
manshah or Baladeh, such as in Sarab-Nilufar, Shahini, etc.
The tribe is settled on the frontier line of the Kirmanshah and Kurdistan
provinces, near Mian Darband.— (Rabino, 1907.)
bAjlan—
The Bdjldn tribe— The Persian section is properly called Jumur. On-
einally the Bajlan, or ruling Bajlan family came from near Diarbekr, headed
bv one Khan Abdal Beg, and settled in Darna and Dartang whence they
were expelled by the Kalhurs in the early part of the 17th Century.
They were given Zuhab by the Turks, and ruled there till 1826, the tribe
being then expelled by Muhammad ’All Mirza. The succession was as
follows (1) Khan Abdal Beg, who dispossessed Qubad Khan of Dartang, (2)
Assaf Beg (3) UthmanBeg, (4) Ahmad Beg (subsequently entitled
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
for
braver’y during the wars against Nadir Shah), (5) ’Abdulla
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
(killed
Shiraz in the war against Karim Khan Zend), ( 6 ) Haji Qadir
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, (_7)
Abul Path
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, ( 8 ) Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, son of Haji Qadir
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, (9) Uthman
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
evicted in 1826, (10) Mustafa
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, now resident in Khaniqin. The
l as t has no son, and will be succeeded by Abdullah Beg, his younger brother.
After 1826 the tribe split, the Jumur sub-section remaining on the frontier,
afterwards Settled at Quretu under ’Aziz Khan. The Qazanlu section settled
in Ben Kudra, and the Shirawand, Hajilar, Gharibawand, and Daudawand,
migrated to Musil and Khushnav in central Kurdistan. The tribe is com
posite being formed of the Guran peasants found on the land by Khan ’Abdal
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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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