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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎49v] (103/706)

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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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BANEH
BlNEH—(Town).
The principal place of the above district is Baneh. Lat. 35° 39'; Long.
45° 54:'. Elev. 5,400 feet.
Baneh is situated on the bank of a tributary of the river Kalvi, and there is
a deep ravine on the other side of the town. It numbers at present 900 houses
of which 40 are of Jews and 90 of Ottoman subjects. In 1832 Gerard esti
mated the population of this place at 600 houses,
It has 1 hammdm, 8 mosques, a Masjid-i-Juma. and 3 caravansarais to
accommodate merchants, who come here during the gall nut gathering season.
The Governor of the district lives here. The town has a prosperous look
and the Khan’s residence is fine and well-furnished.
The Governor of the district of'Baneh is called S dtan, a title granted by
Nadir Shah to the frontier governors as a retort to the title of Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. (Padishah)
given by the Turks to their frontier governors, and to the present day the cus
tom of sounding the naqqdr khdneh in Baneh, instituted by the same Nadir
Shah, is still maintained.
A peak, Arbabat, three miles south of the town, has its slopes covered with
vineyards more than half-way up.
The town was formerly known as Baruzeh and, according to Rich, who visit
ed Kurdistan in 1820, it was a wretched, filthy place, scarcely deserving the
name of town.
The town of Baneh was built about 160 years ago by Ism’ail Sultan , a gover
nor of this district, descended from Suiaiman Beg, who is buried one mile
to the west of the town (some say this tomb only contains one of his teeth)
and whose tomb is now a place of pilgrimage, in the vicinity of which it is
considered a crime to touch the trees, so that there is a fine forest at this
spot. Haj i Zaman Khan‘ who for 18 years was governor of Baneh, until he fell
into disgrace when Mu’ayyid-ud-Dauleh was governor of Kurdistan, is also
a descendant of Suiaiman Beg.
Communications. —Near to Baneh the road traverses a mud flat—a depres
sion in the plain some two miles in width, which would form a serious
obstacle to the passage of guns or waggons. This morass—which it really
is in winter—may be turned by a long detour over a rough hill skirt.
Trade.—The trade of this place is very limited. Baneh imports from
Turkey sugar, dates, iron and worked iron, copper, cotton and silk goods,
drugs, spices, mercery, and haberdashery. The importations from Turkey
to Mukri and Saujbulagh pass through the Baneh Custom-house. Exports to
Turkev comprise gums, mercery and hardware, tobacco, native silk goods
and clarified butter. The imports from Turkey for the year January 21st,
1902, to January 20, 1903, amounted to krens 269,008 and the exports to
Turkey to krdns 96,242. Baneh also exports to Russia gums and gall-nuts.
Some serviceable Henry-Martini rifles are made here.
Some of the sub-districts of Baneh are :—Kaileh-Naur, chief place Sairan-
band-Pusht-Arbabat, name of the sub-district between Baneh and Balekeh.
Dastelal, chief place Siaumeh. Tajan, chief place Tajan. Kivarud, chief
place Kiverud. Dasht-Tal, chief place Satkeh (Tal, in Kurdish, is the
Persian talkh, bitter). This plain was formerly called Dasht Khush, the
pleasant plain, but Nadir Shah passed a very bad night when in camp here,

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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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