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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [91v] (187/706)
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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GADUK—
A pass over the Elburz mountains. From Firuzkuh on the south side
to the foot of the pass is a distance of 8 miles. The ascent thence is not
very difficult, and at the top is the caravansarai of Gaduk, a large substan
tial building out of repair. Descending on the north side the path narrows,
and the road becomes very difficult.— (Burnes ; Stuart; Ouseley.)
GADUK-I-SARDARUD—
A pass in Azarbaijan, 9| miles from Tabriz on the road thence to Maragheh.
— {Schindler.)
GAIBISURKH—
A village on the right of the Tabrlz-Sinneh road, about 37 miles from
the latter.— {Morier.)
GAGAN—
One of the 5 parishes of the Lanjan district of the Isfahan province.
The villages are, Rabukhan, Khan Sark, Mihrgan, Kalisan, Shah Abul Qasim,
Darcheh Abid, Firazan, Chaharburj, Samsan, Qaleh Biaban, Siah-Afshad
Deh-i-Surkh, ’Asadabad.
GAJlN—Elev. 5,933b
A village with a post house in Azarbaijan, 43f miles from Mlaneh on
the road thence to Tabriz.— {Schindler.)
GAJUT—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 9 miles from Maku on the road
to Kallsa Kandi, situated at the entrance to the Awajik Chai ravine.—
{Picot, 1S94.)
GAKli—
Stands a mile to the south of the main Kirmanshah road about 8f
miles to the east of the city of Kirmanshah at the foot of a range of low
bare hills running north-west. Water and cultivation ; no trees of any
kind, some flocks of sheep and goats. The village contains 60 houses of vari
ous Kurdish tribes, and is the property of the sons of the late ’Imam-ud
Dauleh.— {Burton.)
GALANDAVAK—Elev. 5,376'.
A village of 30 houses in the Jajrud valley, about 18 miles north-east of
Tehran. It has pleasant camping places and abundant water. It is the
Galandarak on Lovett’s map (R. G. S„ 1883).— {Schindler.)
GALAND I—
A village in southern Azarbaijan, 14 miles south of Maragheh, on the
road to Sinneh.— {Morier.)
GALAND KAY AH—(Kalan Kaieh?)—
A village in Azarbaijan, about 20 miles north of Marand and 18 south of
Julfa in Russian Armenia. It is described as a large village. {East-
wick.)
GALESHKHAIR—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali (j-v.).
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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