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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎42v] (89/706)

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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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72
AZARBATJAN
the road is to be fit for carts and to follow the existing caravan road. This
road will not have to fear the competition of the Julfa-Tabriz-Hamadan
Railway, a line projected by Russia, as it leads from Astara which has cheap
water transport to the centre of Russia, whilst there is a long land trans
port from Julfa. This projected road is noteworthy as being a purely Per
sian undertaking, to be made entirely with Persian money. But in 1910
it had not yet been begun.
TelegrafJis —Besides the main line of telegraph with iron poles through
Mianeh, Tabriz, Marand and Julfa, there are branch lines from Tabriz to—
1. Giigan, Maragheh, Mianduab, Sauj Bulagh.
2. KhoJ, Salmas, Urumieh.
3. Sarab, Ardabil, Namin, Astara.
4. Ahar, Kalipar, Pul-i-Khudafarln, Hasankhanlu, Pilsuvar.
The most important passes are—
1. That from Khosran to Oilman, height 7,000' by spurs of Siah
Rish, and villages of Neri and Holaneh.
2. Neri to Urumieh steep and in parts only 2 feet wide.
3. The Kalashln (Kalehsln) pass from Ruvanduz to Ushnu over the Iva
Shaikh mountain, commonly called the Peak (height lO^GS 7 ).
It is so difficult as to be scarcely practicable for military opera
tions.
4. The Sauj Bulagh route to Mosul through Sulduz to Ushnu, thence
over the Kalashln via Sijakchal to Ruvanduz.
5. The southern, or Garushim route from Pashi Fort over the water
shed of the little Zab, 6,180', and, down the valley of the Sauj
Bulagh river.
6 . Kiepert’s map shows a shorter route, but by a higher pass, via
Lag win.
There are also groups of defiles to the north and east of the province
into Talish and Gilan.— (Monteith ; Paseley ; Sheil; Malcolm ; Morier ;
Thielmann; Jones ; Schindler Curzon ; Picot.)
AZDANLU (IZZ-UD-DINLU)—
A division of the Qajar tribe of Persia. They were removed to Merv
in the reign of Shah Tahmasp I, and continued to hold that place till con
quered by the Uzbegs under the king of Bokhara, who nearly annihilated
the tribe.
AZHDEHATl—
A village in the Zinjan Rud sub-district of Khamseh and south of Zinjan.
— {Schindler.)
’AZIMABAD—
A village a few miles from Kazvln, on the road thence to Sain Kaleh.—
{Stuart; Cham'pain.)
’AZlZABAD (1)—
A village in lower Sllakhur, about 22 miles from Burujird on the road
to Khurramabad Luristan, via Razan. Consists of miserable huts with about
100 inhabitants.

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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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