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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [143r] (290/706)
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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KALAG—KALAT
273
KALlGHAK KGH (the Crow Mountain)—
A mountain 8 miles east of Nihavand.— {Schindler.)
KALAK (1)—
A village in southern Kurdistan, 8 farsakhs from Zuhab.— {Gerard.)
KALAK (2)—
A village of 20 houses in the Jajrud valley, 2 miles south-east of Galan-
davak.— {Schindler.)
KALAN-CHAH—
A small well of good water in the desert, in the Shahrud district.—
{Stev;art.)
KALANGANEH— Elev. 5,054'.
A village of 50 houses, 19J miles from Burujird on the road thence to
Khurramabad in lower Silakhur.—(ScTimdZer.)
KALANTA—
A large Parsi village 3 miles north of Ruknabad.— {Sykes.)
KALANUS—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, about 24 miles from Khol on
the road to Kizil Dizeh, and about four miles north of the road on the
side of the hills.— {Picot, 1894.)
KALARABAD—
A stream of Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian. It is crossed close
to ’Abbasabad, on the road from Rashf to Astrabad.— {Holmes.)
KALAR-RUSTAQ—
A small district in Mazandaran, lying between the river Chalus and
Namak-ab-Rud, and between the district of Kujuron on the east and Tana-
kabun on the west. Some 2,000 or 3,000 families of Khojavand tribe from
Ardalan and Luristan reside in the district, and, together with Tanakabun
it used to furnish 1,000 foot-soldiers.—(Eraser ; Holmes.)
KALAT ARZAN—
One of the 18 huluks of Kurdistan from 1 to 8 farsakhs west of Sinan-
dlj. It is well wooded with oak, there also are many willows and planes,
and it supplies Sinandlj with firewood. The grain produce is poor, one
seed yielding only three or four. The population numbers about 12,000 living
in 70 villages and paying 26620 krdns taxes per annum as assessed some
years ago. For list of villages in the district see Rabino’s “ Report on Kur
distan ” 1911.— {Schindler, 1902.)
KALATEH (1)-
A village of Persian Kurdistan, the property of the
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
of Sinneh
1897. It stands at the foot of the Zarneh mountain on one of its north
east slopes. Above, the mountain is grassy and wooded, below, stretches
the Shaini plain. Water is abundant. There are some trees. The flocks
and herds are pastured in the summer on the higher parts of Zarneh
C300GSB
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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'
- Pages
- 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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