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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [17v] (39/706)
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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22
AJIY—AKHU
AJlYA—
A large ruined village forty-nine and a half miles from Isfahan on the
road to Yazd. There are some 25 pigeon towers round it in fairly good
condition. East of the village are some fine walnut trees ; to the west the
outlook is desert. The village belongs to peasant proprietors who own 22
pairs of oxen for the plough, sow 90 khamdrs (58,500 lbs.) of grain yearly,
and pay 900 tumans in taxes. There are 80 inhabited houses ; population
350. It is watered by leads from the river. There is a good spring nearly
in the old river-bed. A species of ferry is arranged for -crossing the river
when in flood, consisting of a rope stretched across to which is fastened a
raft, made of inflated skins, covered with boards well secured. The river
is here about 30 yards broad with steep banks. There is a similar ferry
a little higher up stream.— (Preece.)
AKAMAL—
A caravansarai, 48 miles from Isfahan, five or six miles east of the Isfahan-
Tehran road ; now in ruins. There is a little cultivation and a few
poplars, otherwise desert.
There are apparently two places of this name on or near the Isfahan-Tehran
road, distinguished by the names Pain and Bala and about 13 miles apart.
There is a fine stream of water near Akamai Bala.— {Alovief — Ouseley —
Schindler.)
AKBAR-KHAN—
A small village on the road between Kirmanshah and Sahneh, about
6 miles from the latter.—(Tay/or).
AKEH—
A viHage in Kurdistan near the grazing grounds of the Kulliai tribe.—
{Schindler.)
AKHAlN—
The same as Ahuan {q.v.).
AKHAR JAHAN (the end of the world)—
A small village in Azarbaijan, half way between Gugan and Dekharqan,
36 miles from Tabriz.— {Schindler.)
AKHCHALA—
A hamlet of five houses in Northern Kurdistan, 4 miles south of Sain-
kaleh.— {Napier.)
AKHULU—
, vill age in Azarbaijan about 18 miles south-west of Tabriz on the Air
cnai.— {Schindler.) J
AKHURA-I-BALA, AKHURA-I-MlANEH, AKHURA-I-PAIN
. ^ree villages close to one another in the Gurjl sub-division of Farida
in the Isfahan province; about 12 miles from Nimajird, and about 80 mib
from Isfahan on the Burujird road. The inhabitants, all Musalmans, sti
speak Georgian. The villages he in a valley about 1 mile broad at an elevatio
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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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