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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [46r] (96/706)
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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35AT1—J5AI
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BAHRlMLtJ—
A village of 20 houses, in the Plfchkhur district, 133 miles from Tehran
on the road to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
BAHR-UL-IRAM—
A pleasure garden near Barfarush in Mazandaran, formed by Shah, ’Abbas.
It consists of a pavilion built on an island in a small lake, containing many
handsome rooms. The island bears several orange and other trees. The
[. lake, or rather pond, abounds with wild duck, weeds, and frogs,
a BAIANDARAH—
3 A village in Persian Kurdistan near Mik, on the road thence to
Sulaimanieh.— (Rich.)
BAIAT—
lt One of the Kizilbash tribes. They came with Jenghiz Khan, some settling
in Asia Minor and some in Persia. The majority of them live in north Birril-
jird and Khurramabad ; some live in Pars and Khorasan, others joined the
Qajars.— (Schindler.)
BAIAZA, or BIYAZA. —Lat. 33° 21' 25'; Elev. 3,300'.
32 miles south of Khur in the Biabanak District. A small town in a most
ruinous condition. It contains about 150 houses and the ruins of an ancient
fort of considerable height, visible a long way off. South of the town
is an Imamzadeh in good repair and the resort of pilgrims. Water pure and
plentiful from a kandt stream. Cultivation, gardens, date palms, and
bitter oranges.
It is the centre of many desert routes and there are several considerable
towns in the neighbourhood, where supplies are procurable.— (Vaughan, 1891.)
’ BAIG-KANDl vide BAIKANDl and BAKANDI—
BAI JAN (1)—
A village of 15 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, 6 miles from : Abbas-
^ abad on the road to Kh 6 I.— (Picot, 1L94.)
>), BAIJAN (2)—
Avery small village of Mazandaran at the mouth of a ravine on the right
bank of the Harhaz river. The water of the ravine above mentioned,
coming from hills of clay and slate, changes the colour of the river from blue
to grey. Baijan is 42 miles from Amul on the road to Tehran. There is a
~ bridge over the Harhaz, half a mile from Baijan.— (Napier; Stack; Holmes.)
BAIKURT—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 2 miles north-west of Malik Kand! (q.v.) —
(Schindler.)
BAIRAM (1) (or BAHIAN) —
A village 12 miles from Sauj Bulagh, on the road to Sulaimanieh. It is
a poor place and lies at the bottom of a deep cleft through which a stream
runs. Below are gardens, but the houses are mere hovels.— (Travers;
»• Fraser.)
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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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