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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [70r] (144/706)
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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CHI—CHU
127
CHIQA HAD! (Hadi’s hill)—
A village in lower Silakhur, 38| miles from Burfijird on the road thence
to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
CHIQA QARl (Qari’s Hill)—
A village in lower Silakhur, 37 miles from Burujird, on the road thence
to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
CHIQA KIBRIT (The sulphur hill)—
A village with a mound in Upper Silakhur, about 7 miles south of
Burujird supposed to be the fortress Kabreh mentioned in the “ Akrad
Nameh ” to which Iz-ud-din Karhasp ibn Nur-ud-dln Muhammad, Atabeg
of Luristan tried to retire when pursued by Husain-ud-dln Khalil.—
(Schindler.)
CHIQA SHIRIN (The sweet hill)—
A village in upper Silakhur, 8 miles south of Burujird.— (Schindler.)
CHIRAGH BAKAN—
A village in Gilan, 3 miles from Rasht on the road thence to Kazvln.—
(Schindler.)
CHIRAGH TAPPEH—
A village in the Sain Kaleh district of Azarbaijan, on the banks of the
Zar Afshan river, the principal source of the east branch of the Jaghatu.
It is the residence of the chief of a branch of the Afshar tribe, who resides
in a small fort here.
CHlYANEH—
A village in the Sulduz district, Azarbaijan, in the valley of the Gadar
towards Ushnu.— (Rawlinson.)
CHOBARALI—
A village in Azarbaijan about 21 miles south of Guchi, on the road to
Urumieh. It has a good brick bridge, with four arches, over the Nazlu
river.— (Gerard.)
CHOKISHKlN—
A small village in Kurdistan, 19 miles east of Rowandiz on the road
to Raian.— (Gerard.)
CHORS—
A thriving village of 400 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, about 2
miles east of the road from Khol to Karazladin and 5 miles south of the
latter.— (Picot, 1891.)
CHUA BULUK— Elev. 5,400'.
A village of Guran Kurds of the section of Yarviz Sultan of Chua
Chuan ; stands on a cultivated plateau 1 mile to the east of the road from
Kaleh Zangir to Gavarra, 7 miles from the latter place. Fuel, forage and
water are plentiful; room for camping ; supplies in summer. The people
migrate for the winter to Zuhab. There are 40 houses.— (Burton.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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