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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [8r] (20/706)
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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ABB—ABD
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’ABBAg BULAGH—
A village of Sain Kaleh, between Tabriz and Sinneh, 124 miles south of
the former, 102 miles north of the latter, 39 miles south of Maragheh.—
) (Morier.)
[ ’ABBAS SULTANlEH—
^ A village about 45 miles from Sagziabad, on the road thence to Kazvin
via Ziabad.— {Jukes.)
ABDAR-(l)— Lat. 36° 40'. Long. 48° 10'.
A small village 5 miles north of Kavand and 18 miles west of Zinjan.-*
{Schindler.)
iBDAR (2)—
A small village, 19 miles from Daulatabad on the road to Nihavand.—
{Schindler.)
ABD 01—
A Kurdish tribe, headman Isma’il Aga Simko owner of Qutur. Simko
has recently (1913), under Russian protection established himself also at
^ Somai.
Simko is a straightforward and honest Kurd with an unspotted reputation
I for loyalty to Russia Voyenni Sbornik May 1913.
ABDULLAH—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Yazd, some 36 miles south
west of Yazd, and 18 from Taft. Cultivation and Water.— {MacGregor.)
’ABDUL HASANI—
II Name of a tribe living in the province of Tehran.
’ABDULLAH-BEG—
A halting place in Kirmanshah, one march from Zuhab, on the road to
a ' Sulaimanieh.— {Rawlinson.)
’ABDULLAHAbAD (1)—
A village in the Saveh district, 65 miles south-west of Tehran, and 1
mile east of the town of Saveh.— {K. Abbott.)
’ABDULLAHAB\D (2)— Elev. 2,890'.
A walled village formerly of 300 souls on the Tehran-Meshed high road,
nd 11| miles west of Lasgird, deserted in 1860 on account of the failure of the
i is ” water-supply.
A few families from Deh-i-Nimak live here, and a tea shop is kept so long as
rainwater stands in the old Ab-Sambdr.
In the hills 8 or 9 miles North, a sulphur mine was worked prior to 1880
by the late Haji ’Ali Akbar, Amln-i-Ma’dan proprietor of the village.
’ABDULLAHABAD (3)— Elev. 4,000'.
far- A small village 14 miles from Kazvin on the Tehran road. It had a
t is post-house until the new road, a short distance to the north, was opened
in 1880. — {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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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