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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [21v] (47/706)
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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ALYA—AMIN
ALVAD—
A village in the Talish district, on the west shores of the Caspian. On
account of its imperfect drainage, it is considered unhealthy.— (Chesney.)
ALVAR (1)—
A village in Azarbaijan, 4 miles north-west of Tabriz, on the road to
Kh6I.— (Morier.)
ALVAR (2)—
A village of 30 houses, population 200, belonging to the Zill-us-Sultan,
surrounded by cultivation, 54 miles from Isfahan on the road to Burujird.
There is one kanit; 20 pairs of oxen for the plough, 32,500 lbs. of grain are
sown yearly; taxes 60 tumdns. — (Preece, 1893.)
AMAD—
A small village, twelve miles north-west of Tabriz in Azerbaijan.—
' (Schindler.)
AMALEH-I-V i.Ll—
A halting-place in Kirmanshah, 6 stages south-west of Kirmanshah, and
3 miles from Mandall on the Turkish frontier.— (Gerard.)
’AMlRAT—(1).
A halting-place in Kurdistan, 14 miles north of Sinneh on the road to
Tabriz.— (Morier.)
’AMlRAT.—(2).
Same as Imarat (q.v.)
\ A village one stage north of Khurramibid on the road to Hamad In.
There are mountains of the same name.— (Jones).
AMBRAVAN—(Local pronunciation of Amlrabad).
See Amlrabad (1).
AMlNABAD—(1)
A place with a wretched caravansarai on the road from Tehran to Lar
between Damavand and Sarbandan. Supplies procurable at exorbitant
prices. A cool and healthy place even in July.— (Todd.)
AMlNABAD (2)— l
A village, 6 miles from Tehran, on the road to Meshed.—(Mew)
AMlNABAD (3)—
A village about 79 miles east of Tehran, on the road to Firuzkuh, whence
it is about 15 miles distant. It has six houses on the banks of the Dalichai.
— (EastwicJc; Napier.)
AMlNABAD (4)—
A village 9 miles north-west of Isfahan, on the road to Sultanabad near the
stage and
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of ’Am Shlrvan. It consists of about 40 houses.
The annual produce in kharcdrs is 1,200 wheat, 600 barley, 2,400 straw.
Livestock 200 donkeys, 20 mules, and 400 sheep.—(Aaper, 1902.)
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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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