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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎19r] (42/706)

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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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ALFA—ALIA 25
but oecomea a rapid torrent in the spring. It is crossed about 14 miles
north-west of Enzali.— (Holmes.)
ALFAVUT—
A village, about 15 miles south-east of Hamadan, to the left of the road
to Daulatabad Malayar.— (Schindler.)
ALL—
A village near Onir (Alni ?), 40 miles north-west of Ardabil in Aear-
baijan on the road to Ahar.— (Holmes; Todd.)
’ALLABAD (1)—Lat. 36° 27' 49", Long. 52° 51*. (Lemm.)
A village in Mazandaran, 12 miles south of Barfarush. It is said to contain
400 houses ; but only a few stalls, forming a bazar, surrounded by some
miserable huts, are visible. At this place the roads from Barfarush and
Sari meet. Ouseley, however, says of it :—
‘ ‘ There are many large and handsome houses here, reminding one of
Brabant and Flanders, some of them being roofed with very good red tiles/ 1
and Stuart seems to agree with him.
Eastwick says it is surrounded with thickets of the box tree from 10
to 15 feet high. It is a village of mendicants who are eternally saluting every
traveller with the cry of ‘ hak ! hak ’ ! The only healthy place is the ceme
tery, or Imamzadeh, a building not inferior to, and with very much the
air of, a country churchyard in England. The gateway of this building is
where travellers usually rest.
Melgunoff (1864) says of it; it is situated on the Talar river and has 400
houses. Among the inhabitants are some Janbeglu and Madanlu Kurds.
The village has frequently been raided by Turkomans. Shah ’Abbas built
a palace there and the great paved road or causeway passed through the
village. Rice and cotton are much cultivated and much silk is also pro
duced. Wild pig 5 abound in the rice fields and the people have the custom
of hanging the heads of the pigs they kill on trees, which increases the noxious
exhalations.— (Melgunoff, 1864; Ouseley; Eastwick; Holmes, Stuart:
Schindler, 1910.)
’ALlABAD (2)—
A village, 8 miles west of Damghan, on the road to Gusheh. It contains
about 70 houses. Cultivation’and water.— (DeRozario.)
'ALlABAD (3)—
A small village in the Damghan district, 12 miles south of Damghan—
(Schindler.)
’ALlABAD (4)—
A small village on the border of the Mishkin district of Azarbaijan, 37 miles
north-west of Ardabil,— (Holmes.)
’ALlABAD (5)—
A village in the Hasht Rud district of Azarbaijan, situated 4 miles south
east of Saraskand. It consists of a knot of two or three villages in a rich
country among undulating hills,—(Morier.)
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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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