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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [18v] (41/706)
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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ALAK—ALEK
of trees with some crops and cultivation; 600 sheep and goats, 15 horse*
— (Vaughan.)
ALAKABUD—
A village of 60 houses in Kurdistan, 3f miles beyond Bijar, on the Tabriz
Kirmanshah road. The defile of Tang-i-Khalijah (?), the crest of which is
called Gardan-i-Alakabud, intervenes between this place and Bijar. Water
and supplies procurable.— (Napier.)
AL AL AN -CH Al—
A river in the Talish district, crossed on the road from Karganrud to Kupur-
chal. It flows into the Caspian, but except in the spring has very little, if any
water.— (Holmes.)
’ALAMABAJD— Elev. 5,128'.
A village in Lower Silakhur, 23f miles from Burujird, on the road thence
to Isfahan. Watered by a kandt and a river; 70 houses, 320 people, 48 pairs
oxen.— (Preece.)
ALAMUT—
See Aluhamut.
ALANEH—
A village of 40 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, situated under
some hills, about 4 miles to the east of the ’Abbasabad-Khoi road and some
5 miles from the former place.— (Picot, 1894.)
ALAN J IQ—
A fort in Azarbaijan, the exact position of which is difficult to define,
as Monteith does not mention where it is, and Morier merely says it is
north of the Han Dagh mountain. Monteith calls it an impregnable fort
ress. It was surrendered to the Russians in the war with Persia in 1823
through the treachery of its commander.— (Monteith ; Morier.)
ALA SHAKH—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan just beyond Zohrabad on the road
! from Khol to Kizil Dizeh. It has a thriving appearance and many poplar
and fruit trees. Caravans often make it a stage, in preference to Zohrabad.
— (Picot, 1894.)
ALAVl—
A village between Isfahan and Khunsar. Water good and plentiful.
Vineyards, gardens and cultivation here.— (Jones.)
ALBAZIAN—
A division of the Sufi sect, who take their name from Albaz, a teacher who
was invested with the mantle by Abdul Wahid. They affect solitude, and
have neither wives nor children. They profess not to solicit alms, but to
spend freely what comes unsolicited.— (Malcolm.)
ALEKlAN—
A river in the Talish district. It flows into the Caspian between the
villages of Kargan Alkham and Kupurchal. It is generally a shallow stream,
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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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