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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [237r] (478/706)
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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257
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NIH—NIL
461
NlHiVAND—
A town of 3,000 houses with 12,000 people situated 36 miles from Buruiird
on the road to Kirmanshah. It is built just at the foot of the north-east range
ot hills upon some craggy points. In the centre of the town rises the citadel
a most imposing-looking structure and really of some strength. It crowns
the top of the highest of the craggy points on which the place is built, and
is ^PP^ed by an immensely solid mud wall from without, rising at least 100
leet high. Nihavand is celebrated as the scene of the great battle in 641
which gave the Persian Empire to the Arabs. Since Shah ’Abbas re-took
this place from the Turks in 1602, it has been gradually falling into decay
and has now only a thousand houses. 150 Jewish families live in the town!
they are better treated here than elsewhere in Persia. The town contains
7 quarters 4 caravansarais, 5 mosques, 2 high and 11 lower schools, 7 public
baths and 2 bazaars, with about 300 shops. The main trade is in country
woollen materials. _ Water is plentiful and there are fine gardens. The dis
trict forms the basis for a regular regiment. There is a Persian Govern
ment telegraph office here.—(Preece ; Schindler.)
NIASEHRUD—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the the Caspian a few miles east of
fealmrud on the road to Zavar.
. ^ does not contain much water in the winter, but is a considerable rivei
m the spring.— (Holmes.)
NIHSAN—
A village in northern Kurdistan, 65 miles south of Sauj Bulagh on the road
to Yiltomar.— (Gerard.)
NIKAH (I)--Lat. 36°38 0 56'; Long. 53° 16' 30'.
A village in Mazandaran, 17 miles west of Ashraf, 15 miles east of Sari.
It is the chief place of a division of the same name, consisting of many villaces
which are people by a part of the Garaili tribe of Turkish extraction. A
fine full stream of the same name runs through this division, over which there
A hraf n<1 ° me brldge ° £ ° ne arcl1 ' Tliere is a re * ll h good road from Nikah to
The village has 200 houses, scattered among woods and gardens, on
both sides of the Nikah stream. There are six villages with Garaili tribes
in the same sub-division.— (Fraser ; Napier.)
NIKAH (2)— Lat. 36° 50' 0"; Long. 53° V 40".
on A Mazandaran which rises in the Shah-Kuh mountain within
aOmi esofShahrud, and flows into the Caspian, 12 miles west-north-west of
the village of Nikah.— (Napier.)
JnKPAI— Lat. 36° 51' 1"; Long. 48° 20'; Elev. 4,470'.
A village in the Khamseh district 181 miles ’ from Zinjan on the road
thence to Tabriz. Has a post-house, and an old caravansarai Ponu
lation about 500.— (Schindler.) ' *°P U
NILAMBU—
A ridge of hills crossed on the road from Zuhab to Sulaimanleh, near
the Perso-Turkish frontier, distant about 50 miles from Zuhab in Kurdis-
tan,— (Rawhnson.)
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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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