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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎26v] (57/706)

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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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ARAB—ARAB
’ARABSHlH—
A village 4 miles south-east of Tikantappeh, on the road from Tabriz to
Kirmanshah, 46 miles south-west of Samkaleh in Kurdistan.— {Napier.)
’ARADAN or ’ARAZAN)— Lat. 35° 14' 35", Long. 52° 28' 45", Elev. 2,898*
— (Lemm .)
A village in the Khar district. It has 150 houses and lies 73 miles from
Tehran via Khatunabad and Aiwan-i-KIf in the Khar plain.
There is extensive cultivation round it, producing 2,500 Jcharwdrs of
wheat. There are miles of cotton and shaltuk ground, though there are
only about 100 families in the village, who get among other things 15 Tdiar-
wdrs of wheat each. The castle at this place, said to have been built by
Gabrs, is worth a visit. It stands on a mound, 60' high, and on the steep
est side the parapet at the top is 130' from the ground. From this there
is a fine view over an immense plain. The walls of the castle are immensely
thick, and the legend ascribes its construction to demons. 20 families
live in the fort; the others outside. There is a telegraph station here on
the Tehran-Meshed line.— {Clerk; Eastwick; Bellew; Goldsmid ; Schindler.)
ARA-KALEH (1)—
A fortified village on a high mound about 13 miles beyond Chamarln on
the left of the road from Tehran to Hamadan.— {Taylor.)
ARA KALEH (2)—
A village in the Mazdaqan district, 2 miles south-east of Mazdaqan vil
lage.-— {Schindler.)
ARAKAN—
A ruinous and uninhabited village on the road from Aghda (Aqda) to
Nain on the borders of Yazd.— {Abbott.)
ARAN-VA-BlDGUL— Elev. 3,160'.
A couple of towns, Aran and Bldgul, they are 4 miles apart and number
about 800 houses in the Garmslr division of Kashan. Water, trees, culti
vation and supplies of all sorts.— {Vaughan, 1891.)
ARARAT— Elev. Greater 16,916', Lesser 12,840'— {Stebnitzky.)
Mount Ararat, divided into the Greater and Lesser Ararat, lies in the
extreme north-west of Azarbaijan, and marks the commencement of the
Turko-Persian boundary in this quarter, whence it passes 20 miles to the
west of lake Urumieh. The Russo-Persian boundary ends at the summit
of the Lesser Ararat.
It is called by the Armenians Masis Lexn and by the Tartars AgrI Dagh,
both Lern and Dagh signify mountain.
Its appearance is that of a great isolated double-coned mountain, rising
to the skies. Only to the westward is it connected with a rugged mountain
chain, and even this chain is separated from the Ararat by a deep inden
ture so that nothing practically intervenes to impair the impression created
by its superb loveliness.
While the sharply peaked cone of the Little Ararat, although 12,840',
above the level of the sea is free from snow, the cone of the great Ararat

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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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