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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [147r] (298/706)
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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KALEH
281
KALEH MAD TAB—
A village about 8 miles from Burujird on tbe road to Qum.— {Schin
dler.)
KALEH NAU—
A small village in Mazandaran lately built close to Kobat-i-Tijr at
the foot of the Shantu hill, the end peak of a spur from the Shah Kuh.
It is said that there is a cave on the north side of this hill where stalactites
are found.— (Beresford; Lovett.)
KALEH NAZIR—
A village close to Alvar on the Isfahan-Burujird road, containing 40
houses, population 181, and belonging to the Zill-us-Sultan. There is
one hantu; 14 pairs of oxen for the plough; 28,600 lbs. of grain are sown
yearly, taxes 30 tumdns. — (Preece, 1893.)
KALEH PADAZ—
A village 72 miles east of Isfahan, on the road to Nam. It has a small
mud fort.— {Kinneir; Abbott.)
KALEH QAZI—
A bare mountain of rounded outline on the lower slopes, rising above to
several sharp peaks, standing above the right bank of the Zimkan river
opposite Gavarra : to the south runs the Chikabul valley and the road
from Gavarra to Kirmanshah. The peaks of the mountain are con
spicuous from the Kaleh Zangir road to Gavarra throughout.— {Burton.)
KALEH RIZA—
A village in Kirmanshah situated on the Mahidasht plain. It contains
about 30 houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds.— (Vaughan.)
KALEH SABZI—.
A Persian Custom house on a spur 10 miles east of Khaniqin near the road
to Qasr-i-Shirin.— {Soane, 1911.)
KALEH SAPID—
Stands on the north side of the main road 5| miles east from Kirman
shah. Some fine groves of trees and gardens lie below. The fort was
built by the present owner, Jalal-ud-Din Mirza, son of Imad-ud-Dauleh, in
1887. There are a few houses outside the walls. Water is plentiful.
(Burton.)
KALEHSAR—About Lat. 53° 53'; Long. 36° 38'.
A village of Mazandaran, situated on a low hill on the east side of the
Sar-i-Tang valley. It contains at least 80 houses and from 300 to 500
inhabitants. There is a good deal of cultivation about, every favourable
spot being under the plough.— (Lovett.)
KALEH SARA—
A village in Gilan about 3 miles from Rasht to the right of the road
thence to Kazvin.— {Schindler.)
C300GSB
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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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