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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [99r] (202/706)
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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GAZ—GHI
185
The water-supply is abundant and the area of cultivation large; large
numbers of cattle and sheep are owned. The surrounding mountains are
treeless, but contain good grazing; none but cowdung fuel available The
village consists of 40 houses of Kurds.—(SwZow; Schindler.)
GAZNA—Elev. 4,950'.
Stands on a bare spur above the right bank of the stream draining
the valley of Gandumban, Persian Kurdistan, rather over a mile above
its junction with the Qishlaq stream. The mountains are qilite bare of
timber but contain grass and herbaceous plants. There is some area of
cultivation, corn, castor oil, etc., on the bank of the stream below some
springs of water m adjacent ravine. There are 20 houses of Kurds own
ing a number of cattle, goats and sheep. The path down the valley to the
Qishlaq crosses the stream in front of, and is commanded by, the village
at distance of ^ mile.— {Burton.) °
GEUZ KUREH—
district, 11 miles west
7 miles south of Ushnh
A halting place in eastern Kurdistan, 4 stages from Sinneh on the road
to Panj vin.— {Rich.)
GHAFURA or GHAFtJRDARREH— Elev. 6,125'.
A small village of thirty houses m northern Kurdistan between Miradeh
and Baneh. Lies on the chief branch of a stream, 1 mile north-west of
mam track .—{Rich ; Gerard.)
GHAFURABAD—
A small village of ten houses in the Biabanak
of Khur, on the road to Naln.— {MacGregor.)
GHAFUR-KHAN-KALEH—
A halting place in the south-west of Azarbaljan,
on the road to Ruvandiz.— {Ainsworth.)
GHAl—
A village situated on the slope of the hills, about 65 miles east of Isfa
han {Preece, 1892.)
GHAPAR—
A small village in the Darun sub-district of Faridan at the foot of the
Kuh-i-Darbala {q. v. )— {Schindler .)
GH AR IB D UST—(stranger-loving)—
A large village, 28|. miles from Mlaneh on the road thence to Tabriz —
{Schindler.)
GHAZANCHlI—
A rapid_ stream fordable at all times, rising in the mountains between
Mazandaran and Khar, and running southwards. The road from Tehran
to San crosses it near Sarbandan.—(IWd.)
GHlASVAKD—
• ^ class of nomads whose winter-camps Schindler records having passed
CSOOGsV^ 67 ° £ th6 YazMshI stream in Gllan.— {Schindler.) S P
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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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