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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [77v] (159/706)
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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DAR—DAR
DARREH DAS—
A pass in Azarbaijan, over the mountains between the Aras and Tabriz
said to be of such strength, that a small force might hold it against any
army.— (Monteith .)
DARREH KHALAL—
A village of 30 40 houses on the Dlnavar plain. The water is ex
cellent, a fair amount of wheat cultivation and many orchards.— (Mc-
Lachlan.)
DARREH KHUSHKAR—
A place in the Marivan district of Kurdistan between Shaikh Attar and
Rarodar, 38| miles west of Sinneh.— (Gerard.)
DARREH-KOMPAREH—
A pass on the Khaniqin-Sinneh road in Persian Kurdistan, a few miles
east of Qasr-i-Shirin.— (Plowden.)
DARREH MlANEH— Elev. 7,260'.
A village in the Chahar Darreh (four valleys) district; 14 miles from
Buriijird, 18 from Daulatabad. Good accommodation. Inhabitants are
Lakks.— (Schindler.)
DARREH SHAM (lower)—
A village in Azarbaijan, situated at the point, where the Aji Chal falls
into the Aras. It is inhabited by a small colony of twenty families of
Armenians, more or less attached to the church of Daniel. There is a
ford over the Aras here just below the village, but it is said to be uncertain,
with water too deep for safety, and is used only by villagers and smugglers.
Both banks are steep and difficult.
The river is here often crossed by mussack rafts. A Cossack outpost
overlooks the crossing.— (Picot, 1894.)
DARREH SHAM (upper).— Elev. 2,480'.
A village in Azarbaijan situated on the Aji Chai some miles above its
junction with the Aras. It consists of 100 houses, 20 only of which are
occupied, the inhabitants are Turks. The village belongs to the chief of
Maku.— (Picot, 1894.)
DARREH WAIS—
A rich valley in the Kirmanshah district traversed just beyond Gavarra on
the road to Ziihab from Kirmanshah.— (Rawlinson.)
DARREH-I-DUZDAN—
A pass on the road from Tehran to Isfahan, 13 miles south of Kashan-
Means “ The Thieves’ pass.”.— (Trotter.)
DARREH-I-GAZIN—or DARJAZIN.
Formerly called Amr, a district with abundant water and very fertile
about 35 miles north-east of Hamadan, inhabited by Karaguzlu and Ashiqlii
Turks. Its principal place is Famanin with 300 houses ; a number of streams
flowing to the Kara Chai run through it.— (Schindler.)
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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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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