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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎15v] (35/706)

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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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AHMA—AHMA
AHMADAVAND (Village)—Dura Faraman—•
A village behind the Kuh-i-Safid at about 1 farsakh from Sar-Firuzabad.
u is the summer camping ground of a few of the Ahmadavands of Duru
Faraman, who come here during the hot season. It is usually known under
the name of Suleh.— (Rabino.)
AHMADAVAND and AHMADAVAND BEHTUI— (or BUHTUI)—
The Ahmadavand Behtui, or more correctly Ahmadavand and Ahmada-
vand Behtui, are branches of the great Hamavand (Hamad in Jaff being
equivalent to Ahmad) tribe, who inhabit Turkish territory and are said to
have, some 30 years ago, pillaged the frontier and even besieged Mandali.
i he Ahmadavand Behtui number about 400 houses under the authority
of Zahlr-ul-Mulk Zanganeh. (This is no more the case 1904.) The chief of
the tribe is ^ Muhammad Khan Fath-ul-Mamalik. They furnish 100
horsemen to the Government. In summer they reside some 5 farsakhs
from town m the Zir Darband District. In winter they go to their Qishlaqs
near Qasr-i-Shirin. They are divided into the following branches
aramiravand, Damsafavand, Janikhani, Khaj, Bahmiaravand, Jawara-
vand, Kangmavand.
The Ahmadavand Behtui are Shi’ahs.
The Hamavands are, since 1902, when the late chief Namdar Khan was
snot by another brother, named Karim Khan, under Muhammed Khan
I ath-ul-Mamahk.— {Rabino, 1904.)
The tribe is very poor and lives by depredations in Turkish territory
Iheir winter encampments are on the frontier in the fastness of Baghcheh
to the west of the Gilan river. They separate the Bajlans from the Kalhurs!
iheir summer residence is to the north of Kirmanshah—(Cesan, 1904).
AHMADAVAND CHALABI—
A branch of the great Hamavand tribe, now seldom spoken of except as
Lamavand, which inhabited the neighbourhood of Qasr-i-Shirln and Sar-i-
pul-i-Zuhab Curzon writes : “ A few years ago there was a noted robber
chief of the Hamavand tribe named Jawan Mir Khan, who was the terror
of the frontier district near Qasr-i-ShTrin. Unable to coerce him into good
behaviour the Persians, in 1886, made him guardian of the frontier, with
a salary of 3,000 tumdns. As he continued his depredations, he was invited
to a friendly interview with an emissary from Tehran and was treacher-
v Uf p The Ahma 4avand Chalabi were claimed by the
Vah of Baghdad as Turkish subjects, and, after the death of Jawan Mir
Khan they crossed the frontier and settled in Turkish territory. A son of
Jawan Mir was m Kirmanshah a few months ago, but was politely asked
{RaMno^WOr 1 ) 0 * KlrmansiAil to g° and rejoin his tribe. (1902).—
AHMADBEGLU—
T 80 , 6 in df d’ 1 * 1 ™ P Iain three sta ges south o£ Aslanduz,
on the north frontier of Azarbaiian .—(Todd—Morier )
AHMADKULWAN—
Per f l 0 ‘ Turkisl1 frontier in Kurdistan, distant 13 hours
f om Ghulambar, on the road to Sulaimanleh, Turkey.—(IM.)

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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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