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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [179r] (362/706)
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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KIRMANSHAH
345
Above totals are for both Kirmanshah and Kurdistan frontier custom
houses. The respective figures for 1909-12 are—
1910-11,
1911-12.
1912-13.
Remarks,
Kirmanshah ..
Kurdistan
1,414,723
18,478
1,217,332
19,359
938, 365
24,468
Saqqiz custom
house closed in '
1909,
c ouuoiuiz.bu nue UJ. Russian steamers irom Udessa to Basrah
but m 1912 no Russian goods had reached Kirmanshah by this route.
One firm was said to import their goods for the Tehran market through
Baghdad and Kirmanshah finding it the more expeditious, though dearer
route, but this can hardly apply for 1911-12 when, owing to disturbances’
this route was closed for months at a time.
The exports irom Kirmanshah to Baghdad, taking an average for three
years (95—97), were as follows :—
Carpets
Gum tragacanth
Skins
Wool
Dried fruits
Opium
Black tents
iRoghan (clarified butter)
£
14.000
54.000
6,400
24.000
7,800
18.000
2,000
14,500
Total .. 138,600
Of the exports the following countries usually take the largest share
In 1901 the United Kingdom and India had £120,000, France £38 575
(silk) and Turkey in Asi_a £3_8,553. It is difficult to gauge the countries
of destination at Kirmanshah, as everything is forwarded to Baghdad
and distributed from there. 5
The latest figures show the total exports to Baghdad as follows :
1907- 08
1908- 09
1909- 10
1910- 11
1911- 12
1912- 13
£
.. 230,679
.. 304,045
.. 321,662
.. 280,188
.. 206,699
• • 302,087
This does not include exports to Hama dan and the north.
Military.
The nominal strength of the army of the province of Kirmanshah is four
regiments of 800 men each and 150 artillerymen, and some 400 to 500 ir
regular cavalry. But these only exist on paper, and in 1912 none were
available for Government,
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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