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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [231v] (467/706)
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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450
MUR—MUZ
M URTAZABAD—
A village in nortk-western Azarbaljan, T miles from Arab on the Shah
Takht-Khoi road ; there are 30 houses and a water-mill.— (Picot, 1894.)
MUSADARREH—
A village in Azarbaijan, on the road from Maragheh to Mianduab and 6i
miles from the former place.— (Schindler.)
MUSAJUIB—
A halting-place about 24 miles north-east of Anarak, on the road from
Khur to Nam. There is a well of good water here.— (MacGregor.)
MUSHKAK—
A small village, in the Burbarud district of the Japalacj division in the
Burujird province, 73J miles from Burujird on the road to Isfahan
(Schindler.)
MUSHKINAN—
A village 61 miles east of Isfahan on the road to Nam, partly in ruins and
| containing about 150 people, and watered abundantly by handt streams.
Cultivation and trees. To the south, and within a radius of 3 miles are
three other villages.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
MUSHTABAD—
A ruined village formerly a chief place of the district; it is 18J miles from
Sultanabad and 59 from Qum.— (Schindler, 1877.)
MUSHTAVARDAGH—
A range of hills bounding the Mazdaqan district on the south.— (Mmd-
ler.) v
MUSIABAD—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the Caspian, crossed between Deh
Kirip and Sarin Kaleh on the road from Rasht to Amul.—(tfoZmes.)
MUTABAD—
A village with a tomb and “ Imamzadeh ”, 68 miles south-west of
Qum, on the road to Sultanabad, from which it is 9 miles distant There are
some poplars, 12 to 20 feet high, round it.—(Schindler ; Bell.)
MAZDAQAN CHAI—
_ A district about 86 miles east of Hamadan on the road to Tehran. It con
sists of thirty-six villages and forms part of the Saveh province. The pro-
j duce is g rain > raisins, walnuts, almonds and a kind of molasses prepared
f from grape-juice called “Shireh Safid,” which is exported by merchants to
f Astarabad for the Russian market.— (Rozario.)
MUZVISH—
A village in the Qum district south of the town of Qum, in the sub-district
1 of Ardahal. (g.v.) — (Keith Abbott.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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