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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [45r] (94/706)
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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BAGH—BAGHI
77
BlGH—
A village in the district of Khamseh. It is on the post-road between
Tehran and Tabriz, being 225 miles from the former.— (Cham'pain.)
BAGHCHAJUG—
A picturesque and well-wooded village, about 5 miles to the west-south
west of Maku in north-western Azarbaijan, one of the summer residences
of the chief. A little higher up the mountain side is the yaildq or summer
camp.— (Picot, 1S94.)
BAGHCHEH PASS— Elev. 7,530'.
Is crossed by the road from Kandula to Balisht (Kirmanshah). The
ascent from the south is long and gentle up a narrow and winding valley,
which contains patches of cultivation, and a fair stream of water lined in
places with poplar trees. To the north the descent to Balisht is steep
down the shaly sides of bare rounded hills.
The pass itself is bare and open; the ground shaly, with scanty her
baceous plants ; on the north slopes of the hills grass is plentiful: no wood
or water.
On either hand the ground slopes gently up the bare rounded summits
200' to 300' above the elevation of the pass itself, which can be turned
by steep and winding tracks over the adjacent hills. Practicable for
laden animals and very easily improved.— {Burton.)
BAGH-I-FIN—
A garden situated about 3 miles east of Kashan. It is celebrated for
a beautiful stream of water, said to possess medicinal qualities.— {Morier.)
BAGH-I-KUMUSH—
A village inhabited by Hadavand nomads in winter and situated in the
Jajrud valley, east of Tehran.— {Schindler.)
BAGH-I-MARAF—
A village in Azarbaijan, 9 miles west of Tabriz, and on the left bank
of the AjI Chal.— {Schindler.)
BAGH-I-SAD— !
A fine garden in the outskirts of Taft (? Baft) on the Yazd side. It is in
the Plsh-kuh division of the Yazd district. There is a wed built house with
a high “ hddgir ” in the garden.— {MacGregor.)
BAGH-I-SHAH (1)— Lat. 35° 37' 26"; Long. 52° 19' 30"
A fine village on the road from Tehran to Shahrud {via Flruzkuh), about
85 miles from the former. The surrounding country is very fertile, producing
wheat, barley, maize, pulses, castor-oil, and cotton.—(Yapier.)
BlGH-I-SHAH (2)— Elev. 3,350'. '
K village of about 30 houses on the right of the road from Tehran to
Kashan at 28 miles from the latter.— {Schindler.)
BAGH-I-SHAH (3)—
A village about 66 miles from Barfarush, on the road to Tehran by
Damavand.— {Ouseley; Morier.) J
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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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