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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [234v] (473/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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CHA-CHA
CHAR-RAHI—
A branch of the Khalaj tribe. They reside in summer in the buluk of
Ghunghri and in winter in the island of ’All Yusuf in the lake of Bakhtigan.
CHAR SANG— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Isfahan province, lOf miles from Isfahan itself. Here a
fine chaussee, probably dating from the Saffavian monarchs, commences
and goes straight to Najafabad, a distance of about 7 miles.— (Schindler.)
CHARTEH— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,000'.
A camping-ground in the Bakhtiari country situated near the head of the
Ab-i-Sabz Kuh valley. It is a summer resort of the Wat who plant every
available space with wheat, which they reap during the summer.— (Sawyer,
1890.)
CHARU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, 12 miles north-west of Behbehan, situated on an
open plain.
CHASHISTANI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the plain of Khist (q.v.).
CHASHMEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, It miles from Yarpusht, to the left of the road from Isfahan
to Burujird. Has the tomb of an Imamzadeh, Ahmad Riza ; Armenians
say an Armenian priest was buried there 200 years ago.— (Schindler.)
CHASHMEH GAZ— Lat. Long. _ Elev.
A hamlet in the Khinaman district of Kirman, 27| miles west of Kirman
city.— (Sykes, 1900.)
CHASHMEH GULABl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A spring in Ears, about 11 miles west of Darab on the road to Fasa. It
is a fine spring of beautifully clear and limpid water, issuing from the
hills on the side of the road. The excess forms a small stream, which runs
off into the Darab plain and forms a marsh of some size.—(Preece, 1884.)
CHASHMEH-I-’ALl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small spring of fresh water in Ears in the middle of the T&ng-i-Ab-Dun
pass. It is hidden in a cluster of date-trees. (Stack — Vaughan, 1887.)
CHASHMEH-I-CHARZABAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A rapid torrent in Kirmanshah working some five or six water-mills, on
the road between Mahi-Dasht and Harunabad, about 14 miles from the
former place. The torrent runs alongside of the road here for about 100
yards.— (Taylor.)
CHASHMEH-I-CHEHAH QASH—
A spring of good water in the Shulistan district of Ears. It is situated
about 12| miles from Pul-i-Murd on the road to Tang-i-Rud!an in a deep
wooded gorge about two miles from a kutal. — (Grahame, 1908.)
CHASHMEH-I-DIAM— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,610'.
A spring in north-western Bakhtiari country, one of the main sources
of the Zindeh Rud. Ruins of a square fort exist close to the spring. Many
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, 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.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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