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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [52v] (109/706)
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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92
BAR—BAS
\
BARZUK—Elev. 6,900'.
A large village of 500 houses in the Sard sir division of Kashan, situated
in a valley 24 miles from Kashan. It is well watered by the Barzuk river.
It is divided into seven mahallehs, and has 4 mosques, 3 baths and 6
water mills. Nearly all the houses are well built, and the streets are re
markably clean. Six or seven miles south of Barzuk is the small, fer
tile plateau of Vishang, elevation 8 , 000 ', swarming with partridge.—
{Schindler.)
BARZUN—
A village in lower Silakhur, 36| miles from Burujird, to the right of
the road thence to Isfahan.— {Schindler.) 4
BASHABAD.— Vide Bakhshabad.
BASHAR. Vide Ab-i-Bashar.
BASHKALEH—
A village on the Turkish frontier due west of Dilman, Azarbaijan; there
is a telegraph station here on the line from Tabriz into Turkish territory.—
{Schindler.)
BASH KAND—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 10 miles from Maku on the
road to Kalisa Kandi, situated on the right bank of the Awajik Chai which
is here, in November, crossed without difficulty ; If miles further on are some
hot springs.— {Picot, 1894.)
BASHKHIZ—
A village in the Garmeh district of Azarbaijan, 9 miles from Turkoman-
chai.— {Schindler.)
BASHQALEH.— See BOSHKALEH or BASHKALEH.—
(There are two distinct places sometimes spelt this way.)
BAST
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
I JAN.— See BUSAJAN.—
BASMINJ or BOSMlYA— Elev. 5,743'.
A village of Azarbaijan, 12 miles from Tabriz, on the Tehran road
lying on the Basminj river, which flows into the Aji Chai at Tabriz. It is a
fine place, situated on a small plain, 3 miles in diameter, generally swampy,
but with a climate sensibly colder than that of Tabriz.— {Ouseley; Thiel-
mann.)
BAST—
A large village in the Khurkhureh buluk of Kurdistan, twelve jarsakhs
north-west of Sinandij. It has a mosque, built in A.D., 1542, in which is the
grave of Shaikh Ibrahim, some of whose descendants numbering ninety fami
lies reside in the Khurkhureh buluk. — {Schindler, 1911.)
BASUNGA—
A village of Azarbaijan between Sauj Bulagh and Sakiz (Saqqiz).—
(Gerard.)
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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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