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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [8v] (21/706)
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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4
ABD—AB-X
’ABDULLAHABAD (4).—
A village to the left of the road from'Tehran to Kum about 4 miles south
west of Kahrizak, 26 houses. 30 Kharvars of cultivation.—(.Rabmo.)
’ABDUL MALIKlS—
An offshoot of the Lakk tribe. They reside partly near Shiraz and
partly in Mazandaran. Regarding the latter, Fraser has the following
information. They are said to number 3,000 to 4,000 families, and to
live chiefly round Sarmi Kala. (They no longer reside at Sarmi Kaleh ; they
have been removed to Zaghmarz.— (Rabmo.)
They are professed highway men. They seldom murder, but only strip
people, and they never attack a strong party. They are now partially
settled as cultivators and keepers of cattle. They are liable to furnish about
500 mounted men for the Shah’s service in lieu of taxation.— (Fraser—
Holmes — Morier.)
abhar—
A small town, close to the post-road between Kazvin and Tabriz, 46
miles from the former and 55 miles from Zinjan. It lies on both sides
of the Abhar Rud, and has a population of 3,000. On a hill about 1 mile
north of the town are the ruins of an old castle called the castle of Darius.
It is in the Khamseh district. Supplies and water plentiful.— (Schindler.)
ABHAR ROD—
The Abhar river rises on the Sultanieh plateau in Khamseh, flows in a
south-east direction, and waters the Sauj bulagh and Fashavieh sub-districts
of Tehran; it is crossed by a bridge of 7 arches, 600 feet long, 20 feet
wide on the new Tehran-Kum road 5 miles south of Hasan ib ad near which
it takes up the drainage of the Pik and Zarand plain ; it then flows in a
south-easterly direction and loses itself—in the Kavir, south of Tehran. The
old Tehran-Kum road crosses the river by an old bridge, 5 miles below
the new bridge. In its lower course it is called Ab-i-Shur on account of its
salty water.— (Schindler.)
AB-I-AHFOZ—
A mountain stream rising in the Kuh-i-Ahfaz (q. v.), south of Khunsar
near Akhura-bala and Khdjgan ; it flows south-east and joins the Zindih-
rud near Imamzadeh Isma’il (q. v.). It is 100 to 150 feet wide and 3 feet
deep, with a rapid current and a gravelly bottom ; at this point the river
was just fordable on 19th May, but a fortnight before it was unfordable.
— (Bell — Schindler).
AB-I-ASK—
The name of a sulphur spring near the village of Ask which is situated
on the southern slopes of Mt. Damavand in the district of Larijan
in the province of Mazandaran. This spring, and another, called Ab-i-
Garm and situated about 7 miles from it and 2,000 feet lower, have a great
reputation among the Persians for their efficacy in cutaneous diseases.
A regular town has grown up here full of Persian lodging houses.— (Baker—
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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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