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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [176r] (356/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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KAR—KAR
329
Internally the town presents a picture of ruin similar to most eastern
towns. The palace walls are surrounded by untenanted hovels, and
decay presents itself whichever way the eye of the spectator turns. Its
bazars are but partially filled, and, with the exception of fruits which
are abundant, offer but little proof of commercial enterprise. Karman-
shah was celebrated for the richness and beauty of its carpets, but
scarcely one is now obtainable. Industry, indeed, is at present un
known on the spot where thousands of busy fingers were daily occupied
in weaving those beautiful and justly famed specimens of Persian
workmanship. The causes of this lamentable decline of the trade and
the arts are owing to the rapacity of its successive Governors and to
plague and cholera. The better sorts of piece-goods and other Euro
pean manufacture find their way here from Tabriz, and the refuse of
the Baghdad markets is also imported by the poorer dealers when the
bazars of that city are ever overstocked. Tabriz is, however, the chief
place whence its imports are derived. The town was formerly girt by
a strong wall that now exposes large gaps, through which a squadron
of horse might traverse the whole range of its streets, rendering the
gates of the city a dead letter and merely used from habit alone.
Karmanshah is governed by a Prince of the blood, and has an
arsenal. It is a position of considerable strategic importance, being
nearly equidistant from Tabriz, Anzali on the Caspian, Tihran, Isfahan,
and Baghdad. It was recommended by Sir H. Rawlinson during the
Persian war of 1856 that this place should be the main depot in the
event of the advance of a British force against Tihran from Baghdad.
( Kinneir — Fraser — Shiel — Rawlinson — Stanton — Thomson—Rozario
— Floyer — T. C. Plow den.)
KARMANSHAHAN—Lat. Long. Elev. 4,800'.
(St. John’s Map.)
A village in Karman, 60 miles from Yazd, and 180 miles from
Karman, on the road between them. There is a post-house, an excel
lent caravansarai, and a fort occupied by a few matchlockmen placed
here to guard the road. (Smith.)
Elevation 4,775 feet. No village or cultivation. (Gill.)
KARMANSHAH RO HILL A—Lat. Long. Elev.
A district in Ears near Bushahr, from which many “ Gulf Arab ”
horses are sent to Bombay. ( W. 0. Report on Persia, Part I)
KARSAN—Lat. Long. _ Elev.
A river rising in the Bakhtiarl mountains of Luiistan, which, joined
with the Ab-i-Garm south of Ealat, forms the Ab-i-Burs, the first great
affluent of the Karun. (Layard.)
KARGN—Lat. Long. > Elev.
A river of Khuzistan, Persia. Its principal sources are at a place
called Korreng in the mountains of Zardah Kuh. The springs are most
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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