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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [54v] (113/706)
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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BIB—BIH
BI-BtJLAK—
A village of Azarbaijan, one stage from Mianeh, on the road to Mara-
gheh.— (Morier.)
BlDASHK, BlDASHT or correctly BlDHAND—
A village in the Barzrud division of Natanz, 174 miles from Tehran, from
which it is 60 miles distant. It lies half a mile to the east of the road, and
contains some 30 houses, and some cultivation.— (Clerk; Taylor.)
BlDEH—
A village in the Yazd district about 1 mile west from Maibud, and 37
miles from Yazd. It is an old castellated-looking village. Here are made
a great number of the oval-shaped earthen pipes (Ka al) used for making
underground canals (kanats) in loose soil. It is situated on an elevated
part of the plain of Maibud, snd possesses a fine tract of field and garden
land, the former of which produces cotton and barley.— (S7nith; Abbott.)
BIDGUL—
A large village of about 1,000 inhabitants in the Garmsir division of
Kashan, 9 miles north of the town of that name near the moving sands.
It formerly had 1,800 weaving looms, but now makes only a very little stuff,
silk and cotton voxkqA—(S chindler.)
BlDHAND—commonly called BITAN (old form YIDHAND), also see
BlDASHT—
A fine village of 150 houses in the Kuhistan sub-division of Qum, 1|
miles from Abrjlsh. It possesses a mosque, a bath and an Imdmzddeh .—
(Schindler.)
BID-I-SUBKH—
A small but steep hill to the south of the road from Kanga var to Kirmanshah
37 miles from the former. Here there is a spring of good water called
Chashmeh-i-Ab-i-Bid-i-Surkh.—(Iwzar Gul 1911.) There is a village of the
same name.— (Rabino.)
BiFUNA (?)—
A walled town, 2 miles north of the road between Hamadan and Kir
manshah, 37 miles from the former.— (Taylor.)
BlGAMA—
A rich valley in the Kirmanshah district, about 60 miles from Kirmanshah
on the road to Sulaimanieh (via Gahvareh).— (Rawlinson.)
BlGKANDl—see BlKANl—
BlHISHTAN. Vide Bisitun.
BIHISHTI—
A village two miles south of Shah ’Abdul ’Azim on the right of the Tehran-
Qumroads. Its fields extend north to Daulatabad and south to Khairabad.
30 houses.— (Rabino, 1899.)
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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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