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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [53v] (111/706)
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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BAZ—BIA
BAZIRGlN-
A village of 10 houses added to Persia by Turkey in 1913, 18 miles south
east of Bayazld. Caravans sometimes make it a stage. Supplies, except
sheep, scarce.— (Picot, 1894.)
BEGBAGHl—E lev. 3,056'.
A pleasant camping ground on the road from Kazvln, to Rasht, between
the villages of Aghababa and Manjll, and 18 miles from the former. Beg
Baghi is situated at the junction of the Aspabin and Yuzbashi valleys.
Figs and oleanders, which flourish here, are a proof of the warmth of the
climate. No village nor habitation. In winter some of the Ghiasvand
nomads come here.— {Schindler.)
BEGZADEH-SlAH SlAH—
A clan of the Kalhiir tribe of the Kirmanshah district. This clan numbers
about 100 families, and lives at Sar-i-ab Gilan.— {Plowden.)
BEHLULABAD—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 9| miles from ’Arab on the Shah
Takht-Khdi road.— {Picot, 1891.)
BEHTUI (1) see BUHTUI—
BEHTUI (2)—
A tribe of 300 houses settled in the province of Kazvln along the road to
Qum. Their chief is Haji As’ad Khan.— {Rabno, 1909.)
BEHISTTJNI RlSlTDN
BESITtJN S BibllUK
BEGI also called BEYI—
A district in Azarbaijan, on the left bank of the Jaghatu river, south-east
of lake Urumleh. It is now inhabited by Chardaulis, but formerly be
longed to the Beyi tribe of Mikris, who were expelled by ’Abbas Mirza.—•
{Rawlinson.)
BIA—
A small village, 65 miles from Sinneh, on the road to Kirmanshah. It
consists of a few huts only on the banks of the Shirwan.
BIABANAK (1)—
A district bordering on Khorasan, being a sub-division of Samnan; it
contains 8 villages (Khur being its principal place), viz., Khur; Jandak
(15 farsakhs north of Biyaza,) with 50 houses; Firakhi 40 houses ; Garmab,
Urdib, 40 houses; Iraj, 50 houses; Mihrjan, 100 houses ; and Biyaza, 150
houses, 32 miles from Khur. These are situated generally at the foot
of hills in the midst of a howling wilderness. The sub-divisions have ab
solutely no importance.— {MacGregor.)
BIABANAK (2)—
A village in the Samnan District, 13 miles south of Samnan, containing
70 houses. The inhabitants, who are cultivators, possess a few sheep and
camels, and about 200 donkeys.
The village is surrounded by wheat cultivation.— {Vaughan, 1887.)
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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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