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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [30v] (65/706)
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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48
ASAD—ASA
added to Kirmanshah in 1902, is very fertile, and pays about 13,000 tumans
per cnniim to the OovornTnont, mostly in grain. In 1904 Prince Farman
_ Farma bought much property in this' district. For list of villages in the
• district see Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of Kirmanshah, 1907”.—(Ta/vZor • Rabino
1907 ; Schindler, 1910.)
AS’ADABAD (2)—
A small village in the Khudabandehlii sub-district of Khamseh, 7 miles
south of Sultanleh.— (Schindler.)
AS’ADKHAN!—
A small village in Upper Silakhur, 5f miles south of Buriijird on the
road to Isfahan. Up to a few years ago it was Khaliseh (Government pro
perty), but is now private property.—(GcAwto.)
’ASALAK—
Name of a little spring some 20 miles from Kazvin, on the road thence
to Rasht, just before the Aspabln valley is entered.— (Schindler )
ASALIM—
A district of Gilan adjoining that of Kargan Rud, about 4 miles
distant from the village of Karganrud.
Also the name of a small village about 11 miles from Kargan Rud, situated
about a mile up a stream bearing the same name. (Todd )
ASAL YAKAIN—
A vill igo in north-west Azarbaijan, about 8 miles east of AvoGii (Picot )
ASARAN (or ASIRAN)— ° '
A plateau and a small village 39 miles beyond Firiizkuh, on the road thence
to ohahrud.— -(Napier.)
ASAWAL—
A village in Kurdistan, 19 miles from Takht Sulaimameh, on the road
between Smneh and Kirmanshah.—(Gerard.)
ASFARJAN—
•. A !™ n, I 0 mi > MS0 “ th ° f on the road to Persepolis, from which
it is 120 miles. It is described as “a pleasant town ’’.—(Webb )
ASGHARAN or ASRARUN (2)— Elev. 7,267'.
A small village 58 miles from Isfahan on the road to Burujird occupied
by Armenians. Opposite to it on the slopes of Mount Ahmad Riza there
is a little building and a spring.— (Schindler ; Preece.)
ASHAGU—
k village in Azarbaijan, 28 miles south-east of Sauj Bulaghon the road to
feakiz (oaqqiz)— (Gerard.)
ASHAGHABASH—
. T * 16 na “ e oU of the Qajar tribe. It signifies the
is that of the present dynasty of Persia.—(McoZm.)
See “Kajar”, Volume I.
“ lower,” and
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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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