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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [18r] (40/706)
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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AKHU—ALAK ~ ' 23
of 8,440' for Akhura-i-Bala and 8,140' for Akhura-i-Pain. The vallev
is clear of snow for 7 months, but for 5 months from November to March J the
snow lies so deep that the villagers have to keep to their houses ; the flocks
are housed m underground chambers. Provisions for man and beast
or the 5 months of winter are laid in during the open weather. In June
^ P i a fnn r ! 1S o S nn d n ^ ^ese villages contain about 350 houses
and 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants. Provisions scarce, sheep numerous • corn
scarce ; donkeys abound,_ every village having 50 or 60. The popular
etymology of the name is Ab-Khuran, giving to drink or irrigating, because
the rivers, which rise m the mountains in the neighbourhood of Akhura
water the country all round. A road leads from Akhura toDizfulmi
Gartak, 6 stages.— (MacGregor — Bell — Schindler.)
AKHURD—
A village, 52 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Yazd. It consists of
a few huts and gardens and trees. It is near the spot where the waters of the
Zmdeh Rud are lost m the salt marsh.—
AKJABAD—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 2f miles north-west of Ajabshlr and about
a mile west of the Maragheh-Tabrlz high road.—(Mmto)
AKOVNA—
A village in Azarbaijan, 9 miles from Marand on the road from Julfa to
Tabriz.— (Bicot, 1894.)
AKU—
Morier gives a village of this name 70 miles south of Tabriz and 151 north
: of Maragheh, Schindler says this is the same as Alkuh (q.v.).
’ALA, ALSO CALLED KAHLA—
A village of 120 houses, 4|- miles east-south-east of Samnan ", formerly a
place of some importance, now half buried in sand, blown over it from the
desert to the south. Has a fine mosque minaret built in 12th century.—
(Schindler.)
ALACHUM—
A small village, of round houses with domed roofs, 24 miles on the road
from Qum to Gulpaigan ; the fields are irrigated, and there are a few trees
and cultivation about— (Bell.)
ALLAHABAD—
A village passed on the road from Isfahan to Yazd, about 85 miles from
the former.— (Smith.)
AL-AHWAZ—
A high barren chain of mountains near Khunsar.—(Jones.)
ALAK—
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bllawar valley about 33 miles
north of Kirmanshah city. It contains about 50 houses inhabited by Bilawarl
Kurds and is close to the Razawar Rud. Water from a stream; a fair number
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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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