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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [24v] (53/706)
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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36
AQBU—AQDA
AQBULAGH (1)— Elev. 6,800^.
A village of 30 houses situated in the north-eastern corner of the Afshar
sub-district of Sain Kaleh in Azarbaijan. It lies on a fine stream of water
called here the Aqbulagh, the principal source of the Saruq river. The
source of the stream is situated a few miles east of the village on the slopes
of the Qanlu Dagh.— {Schindler.)
AQBULAGH (2)—
A small village a couple of miles south of Girishkin and 24 miles west
of Kazvln.— {Schindler.)
AQBULAGH (3)—
A village in the Ardabil district lying 3 miles north-east of Ardabil. Sup
plies and water.— {Holmes; Todd.)
AQBULAGH (4)—
A village in North-Western Azarbaijan, 9 miles north-west of Zohrabad
on the road from K6i to Kizil Dizeh.— {Picot, 1804.)
AQBULAGHI—
A village of 15 houses at the foot of the Takkeh Kayasi mountain in the
Ijarud district of Khamseh, 24 miles west of Zinjan.— {Schindler.)
AQ-CHAl—
A river of Azarbaijan, which, rising in the mountains above Zohrabad
in the west, flows to Marakand where it is joined by the Kizil Chai and
Zilbir Chai, and then flows north to the Aras. At about 22| miles below
Zohrabad, the river in November was 20 / wide and only a few inches deep,
but in spring there is much water and the crossing is dangerous.— {Picot,
1S94.)
AQCHEH—
A ruined Armenian village in the Faridan division of the Isfahan prov
ince, 2 miles west of Zarna and 108| from Isfahan on the road to Buru-
j ird.— {Schindler.)
AQDA—tade AGHDA.
AQDAGH (1)—
A mountain in the Afshar sub-district of Azarbaijan, between the vil
lages of Hampa and Yulghun Aghach. The pass which leads over it has
an elevation of 7,510 feet. It has its name (Aqdagh= white mountain)
from the light coloured sandstone of which it consists.— {Schindler.)
AQDAGH (2)—
A range of mountains in Khamseh, 10 to 12 miles south of the road from
Sultanieh to Kazvin.— {Schindler.)
Napier includes both the above in one article, and says the name is given
to a district rising from the broken plateaux which extend from the water
shed line of the Kizil Uzun to the plain of Khamseh and Kazvin and falls
away to the common level a few miles lower down the course of this river.
Hence the worst portion of it, that beyond Karabulagh, mav be turned
by striking ofl from Karabulagh eastward to the village of Kushaful, a few
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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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