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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [157r] (318/706)
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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KARG-KARI
301
some are roofeo with shingles covered with stones to keep them in their
places and the rest are thatched with rice straw and reeds. It is the winter
residence of the chief who retires to his “ yailaqs ” or summer pasture grounds
in summer.— (Todd; Fraser ; Holmes.) The nal nam.3 of this village is
Rik.— (Rabino).
KARGHEH BAZAR I—
A small district in Azarbaijan, on the Urumieh lake, near Khanaqa (Khan-
ian, Khanagan).— (Schindler.)
KARGHULAK—
A village in Azarbaijan, about 3 miles west of Kaigach, on the Aras.
It consists of 150 houses (100 only occupied), situated on high ground over
looking the river. Below are the remains of a once massive bridge of four stone
piers. Three are in good preservation, of the fourth only the foundations
remain. A Cossack guard of 10 men is stationed on the opposite bank.—■
(Picot, 1891.)
KARGIZ KUH—
A range of hills crossed by the post-road and also that rid Natanz between
Isfahan and Kashan. They reach a height of 9.000 feet and run west-north
west and east-south-east.— (Schindler, 1879.)
KARGUSABAD—
See Karpuzabad.— (Stuart.)
KARIA—
A small ruined village in Kurdistan between Rayar and Khalisissar.—
(Gerard.)
KARlJAN or KARlJUJST—
A large village about 15 miles rom Sultanabad, on the road from Burujird
to Tehran.— (Bell, 1884.)
KARl KALEH—
A canal in Mazandaran 14f miles from Barfarush, on he road to Amul.
It is described as deep and wide and is crossed by a stone bridge. The
canals in ihis district are usually fenced with masses of bramble and
thorn.— (Napier.) It carries oft the waters of the Harhaz, into the Babal
river about a mile from Barfarush ; it is used for irrigating the plain becween
the Harhaz and Babal.— (Stal.)
KARIM—
A small village between Robat-i-Karim and Pik, on the route from Tehran
to Hamadan.—(IF. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 225.)
KARIMABAD—
13 miles south-east of Tehran. A dilapidated village of about 30 houses
enclosed by a mud wall. Water plentiful from streams.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
KARIM HASILA—
A village in Kirmanshah on the main road from Baghdad to Kirmanshah
city and 16 miles south-west of Mahidasht. It contains about 20
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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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