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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [234v] (473/706)
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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456
NAS—NAT
NASRABAD (2)—
A village about 20 miles from Tehran, on the road to Saveh.— {Abbott.)
NASRABAD (3)—
A village of ten houses, 36 miles east of Hamadan and 6 miles from Zarreh
and 140 from Tehran on the Hamadan-Tehran lo&di.—{Schindler.)
NASRABAD (4)—
A village 50 miles from Tehran on the road to Kazvin.— {Ouseley.)
NASRABAD (5)—
A village 1 to 4 miles from Kashan, on the Tehran road. It is surrounded
by a mud wall, and contains 300 houses, with a caravansarai, some corn
fields and cotton plantations, and is celebrated for its melon beds. The
inhabitants are noted for their idleness and propensity to voluptuousness,
so that one who comes the fine gentleman is called a Mirza of Nasrabad.—
{Morier; Ouseley.)
NASRABAD (7)—
A village 3£ miles north of Kazvin.— {Schindler.) !
NASRABAD ( 8 )—
A village, 57| miles from Kazvin, on the road to Tabriz, in the Kham-
seh district.— {Schindler.)
NASRABAD (9)—
A considerable village in the Mishkin division of Azarbaijan about 40
miles from Ahar and some 50 from Ardabil. It is situated on the side
of a deep ravine running from the hills to north of the io^.—{Holmes;
Todd.)
NATANZ (Province)—
l This small province occupies the hilly region between Kashan and Isfahan
' and part of the plain between Kashan and Ardistan. The assessed revenue
in 1896 was 162,795 krdns. The province contains 82 villages and hamlets
and has a population of about 23,000. It is divided into four districts, named
after the four principal streams, viz., Barzrud, Natanzrud, Tarkrud and Bad-
rud. The first mentioned is the largest and contains practically the whole
of the western half of the province ; Badrud is the smallest and consists of the
eastern part of the province j Natanzrud is in the centre and Tarkrud contains
the southern part of the province.
Badrud is in the plains, the other districts are mostly hilly, Barzrud
altogether so. The Governor of the province is appointed by Hissam*
us-Sultaneh and resides at Natanz in the Natanzrud district.—(£c/mid-
ler.)
NATANZ—(Town)—E lev. 5,670'.
A small town situated in the Natanzrud district of the Natanz province,
1 in a fertile and secluded valley open to the south-east. Its distance by road
from Isfahan, via Sardhan, is 69 miles; from Kashan via Buzabad 53 miles
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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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