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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [324v] (653/706)
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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636
VAL—VAR
VALMAN—
A village of about 40 bouses inhabited by the Khalij, 5 miles north-east
of Saveh. Only water obtainable is brackish and is brought in kanats.
A few small orchards towards the south.
VAMARZAN—
A village 5 miles east of Damghan to the right of the road to Shahrhd.
— (Schindler.)
VANABlN—
A village in Talish, situated on the brow of a hill, 20 miles east of
Narnin, and 22 miles west of Astara, on the Caspian coast.— (MacGregor's
Routes; Todd.)
VANAH—
A fine village of Mazandaran in a green cultivated valley, near the Har-
haz river, close to Mount Damavand. It is 70 miles from Tehran on the
road to Amul.— (Holmes; Ouseley; Napier.)
VANDA—
A village m the Burujird district of Luristan 12 miles north-west of
Burn j ird.— (Schindler.)
VANDILAN—
A village, about 22 miles east of Isfahan.— (Preece, 1892.)
VARANEH—
A village on the road from Aiwan-i-KIf to Flruzkuh, 90 familes, 1,500
sheep, annual produce of dried apricots amounts to 500 kharwdrs.—
(McLachlan.)
VAR AMIN (1)—
A district of the province of Tehran, divided into four sub-districts con
taining in all one hundred and twenty-three villages, is very fertile and
well watered, supplying the markets of Tehran. The Kandrud, Jajrud,
and other streams flow into this great corn-clad plain.— (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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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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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