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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎13v] (31/706)

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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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AFSH—AFHD
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AFSHAR—
One of the Kizilbash (q.v.) Turkish tribes settled in Persia since the 16th
century. It is divided into many branches and numbers, about 12,000
families who have mostly discarded their original nomad ways of life and now
liv 1 in villages and towns. More than a quarter of the tribe is settled in
Azarbaijan and in the Urum! h, Sain Kaleh, Ardabll and Mishkin districts,
others live in Mazandaran Khorasm, ’Iraq, Pars, and Kirman. About 1,400
men are in service in the Persian cavalry ; in case of emergency the tribe
could, it is said, put 15,000 well armed horsemen in the field.
About 2,000 fighting men of this tribe accompanied Nadir to India ; on
his return march he left them in Kabul, whither he sent their families too.
Their descendants speak Turki and with the exception of dress there is very
little difference between them and their brethren in Persia.— {Schindler.)
AGHABABl— Lat. 36° 20' 6" , Long. 49° 46' 0" {Si. John), Kiev. 4,980'.
Is a large village on the road from Kazvin to Rasht 14 miles from the
former. There is good accommodation for travellers in some rooms built
over the gateway of the village, also in a pleasant garden opposite.
Two roads lead from here to Pa-i-Chinar, one by Mazrah and Isma’ilabad
or Kharzan, and the other by Kuhin and Mulla ’AH. The latter is the
new Russian road.— {Schindler—Eastwick.)
AGHA JANPIREH—Kiev. .—{Schindler.)
A small village 6 miles west of Zinjan in the Khamseh province.—
{Schindler).
AghAjik—
A miserable Armenian village in Azarbaijan, 14 miles south-east of BayazTd
on the road to Tabriz. It lies on the extremity of the plain, on leaving which
at Aghajik the road winds through valley formed by the western mountains.
The village has also an old square mud fort on a hill— {Fraser Morier.)
AGHA-NUR—
A ruined village on the left of the road from Tehran to Isfahan, 20 miles
from the latter.— {Taylor—Clerk — Hardy.)
No longer traceable. — {Schindler — 1910.)
AGHDA AQDA— {Lentz.) Lat. 32° 26' 30". Long. 53° 38' 3". Altitude
4,110'.
A large walled village in the province of Yazd, 64 miles north-west of
Yazd on the road to Isfahan. It has a high mud fort partly in ruins, and
chdpdrkhdn^h. It contains only about 300 poor families, but the adjacent
ruins proclaim it to have been a place of more importance in former
times. It is said to have existed over 1,000 years, and has many monu
ments and ancient inscriptions. It lies about 2 miles south of the moun
tains bounding the south of the plain. It is remarkable for its noble cara-
vansarai and “ dbambdr,” built by a merchant of Rasht about 1851 ; also for
a large spring in a hollow under the fort, which is fed from the hills.
The date trees and myrtle bushes in its neighbourhood give the place a
picturesque appearance. Water and supplies are plentiful. The district of
Aghda appears to contain only two other villages, viz., Shamsabad and

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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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