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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [233v] (471/706)
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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454
NAM—NAN
at the foot of the mountains which divide the upper country from the low
lands of Talish. The houses are in good repair and neatly built, and a clear
stream (the banks of which are planted with willows, poplars and some fruit
trees) flows past the east side. This village contains about 200 houses and
yields 150 tumdns revenue.; (Todd; Holmes; Thielmann.)
NAM IN ( 2 )—
Is a sub-district of Ardabil. It was granted as tlul or perpetual fief
to those descendants of Mustafa Quli Khan of Talish who chose to remain
Persian subjects after the annexation of northern Talish by Russia in 1828.
The Khans of hiamln receive 125,000 krdns yearly from the customs at Astara
as port rights.—1909.—( Rabino .)
NAMISEII—
A village in the Malayar district 1 | miles south of Daulatabad on the
f road to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
NAMRtD—
A river crossed by the road from Barfarush to Damavand, about 60
miles from the former town and at 6 miles from Gaduk. It flows in a
south-easterly direction 7 miles from Firuzkuh, where in July it has a width
of 80 yards, greatest depth 4 feet, and in flood impassable, it is a perennial
stream flowing swiftly over its wide pebbly bed, and the small pebbles
forming its bed are scoured into deep holes. The banks at crossing-point
are quite open.— (Ouseley ; Morier ; Napier.)
NAMUD—
A hamlet 4 miles north of Ahuan in the Samnan district.— (Mmfc) ■
NANAJ (1)—
The n^me of two passes in the Malayar district of Traq-i-’Aiam called
the Greater and Lesser Nannj, and lying 31f and 281 miles respectively
from Hamadan on the road to Daulatabad.—(NcA^er.)
NANAJ (2)—
A village of 100 houses on the Nanaj river, to the right of the road from
Hamadan to Daulatabad Malayar 28 miles from the former place. (Schind-
NANAKALI—
A tribe of Kurds in the Kirmanshah district, residing in Mian and Push
Darband districts, i.e Bala and Zir Darband. They are said to numbei
300 families and supply 50 horsemen to the Government. They are undei
the authority of Zahir-ul-Mulk Zanganeh and their chief is Muqtadir-us-Sul
an, the son of the Zahlr-ul-Mulk They are sedentary and given to agricul
ture. Iheir village l.es some 6 farsakhs from Kirmanshah. They are Shl’ahs
^ hen °PP resse d in Kirmanshah they go to Kazvin, and when oppressec
m Kazvin they come to Kirmanshah, many families settling in villages on th<
road —-(Plowden ; Rabino, 1907.)
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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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