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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [318v] (641/706)
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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624
TIL—TIE
TILT ASH—
See Til-i-nau.
TIQMADASH—
A village in Azarbaijan, 43 miles south-east of Tabriz, on the road, thence
to Turkoman Chai. The country about here is destitute of trees, but there
is generally much cultivation.— (Morier ; Ouseley.)
TIEAU—
A valley in Kirmanshah about 42 miles south-west of Kirmanshah city-
The roads thence to Baghdad via Mandali and to Sar-i-Pul via Kifraur
pass through it. It is a level valley, with a small stream flowing down
the centre.' It is about 1 mile in breadth from north to south. The hill?
on either side of it are well wooded, chiefly with dwarf oak. The graz
ing is excellent and the water-supply is good. Its elevation is about
4,600 feet. It forms the summer quarters of a portion of the Chupan Qa-
sim Khani Kalhur Kurds ; Chief Namdar Khan. They number 300 tents.
The plain is inhabited from April to the end of September. In winter it is
deep is snow. Roads run from here to Kirmanshah, 51 miles and to Sar-i-
Pul, 48 miles.— (Vaughan.) Tiiau is called by Rabino Traveh.
TRATULEH—
A district of Kurdistan lying apparently in Persian territory, north
west of Sinneh and north-east by east of Sulaimanleh.— (Rich.)
TIREH—
See Jazeh.
TlRlCHAI—
A pass over the range which divides the drainage of the Kizil Uzun from
that of the Zinjan river.— (Rawlinson.)
TIRK—
A village in Azarbaijan, 19 miles east of Turkoman Chai, on the Tabriz-
Tehran road. It is a pretty little place surrounded by orchards belonging
to Shaqaqis.
TIR-KALEH—
s A village in Mazandaran, 7| miles from Sari, on the road to Barfarush.
It has some cultivation around it.— (Napier.)
TlRtJN—
Generally called Tirun-Karvan or Karvan alone, which the Bakhtiaris.
pronounce Cherven, thirty-three miles from Isfahan on the road to Burujird.
A very large and prosperous place, belonging to peasant proprietors ; it
consists of three parishes, 700 houses ; population 6,200 ; there is a fine
large mas] id and three hammcms. It is watered by eight kanats and a
small stream which comes from Dalan Kuh. It possesses three “ mazra’ehs ”
worked by the villagers ; there are many fruit gardens round ; 1,000 sheep
here ; 10,400 lbs. of grain are sown yearly. Taxes amount to 7,000 tumans.
The district contains 47 Musalman and 3 Armenian villages from Najaf-
abad to Dumbaneh. A stream of the same name flows through the dis
trict.— (Preece ; Schindler.)
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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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