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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [7v] (19/706)
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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’ABBASlBlD
exchange ior the village and grounds o£ FIruzeh in accordance with the
CO About°a n thirda mile below the church is the ford. It is about 150
yards across and runs obliquely down stream from the right to the left
bank Bottom firm, with sand and pebbles, knee-deep for horses m summer
chest deep in autumn ; at other times dangerous or impossible Descent
from the Persian side is abrupt and ramping is necessary. On the Kussian
side easy. The river about here runs between banks, from 8 to 12 feet high,
and the water fills the bed from bank to bank —(PicoJ—
’ABBASIbAD (2)—
A small village in the Biabanak district, north-east of Yazd, possessing
some very fine fir trees. It lies 49 miles from Khur and 102 from Nam.
Water procurable ; no supplies—(MocGregw.)
’ABBASAbAD (3)— Lat. 36° 42'; Long. 51° 7'.
A village in Mazandaran, situated about 200 yards from the south coast
of the Caspian, about 95 miles east from Kasht. It is a very insignificant
place consisting of 50 or 60 mud hovels, but is pleasantly situated on a
fine open space, covered with green sward, on the left bank of a stream
of the same name.
It is surrounded with rice-fields v which makes its neighbourhood almost im
practicable for the movement of animals.— (Holmes — Pushchin — Stewart.)
’ABBASAbAD (4)—
One of a group of villages immediately to the north-west of Khumain
on the right of the road to Sultanabad. Well cultivated.— (Preece.)
’ABBASABAD (5)—
A small village a couple of miles west of Khanabad on the Tehran-Hama-
dan {Schindler.)
ABBASABAD (6)—
A small but very fertile district, 3 to 4 miles west of Hamadan on the
northern slopes of the Alv&nd—(Schindler.)
’ABBASABAD (7)—
A small village of 15 houses in Ardalan on the road between Tabriz and
Kirmanshah, 244| miles from the former, 98 miles from the latter. It is
9 miles south of Khusrauabad.— (Napier.)
’ABBASABAD (8)—
A village in the Avroman buluk, Kurdistan.— (Schindler).
’ABBASABAD.—Zuhab.
Khdleseh (crown property). A village of the buluk of Zuhab, 2f far-
sakhs distant from Sar-i-pul-i-Zuhab, on the road to Qasr-i-Shirin. It is
composed of two hamlets, numbering 24 houses.
Cultivation : rice and garden crops. The Hulvan passes through the
village.— (Rahino.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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