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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎55v] (115/706)

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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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BIJ—BIL
Bl JAW AND—
A district (?) in Kirmanshah, situated to the west of Hulailan—(T. C.
Plowden.)
BIJIN—
Also called Band-i-Bijin.
A village to the left of the Tehran-Qum road about f mile north-west of
the Karaj bridge and on the right bank of the Karaj River. 26 houses.—
(Rabino, 1S99.)
BlKANDl (1)— CORRECTLY BIGrKANDI.
A large village, 115 miles from Tehran and about 25 miles from Kazvin
onthe road to Rasht. It is between Aghababa and Manjll and is situated
on a stream flowing down towards the Mulla ’AH valley and Pa-i-Chinar.—-
(Schindler.)
B IK AND I (2)—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan about 16 miles from Kizil Dizeh on
the road to Khoi.— (Picot, 1894.)
BILAB AD, BALABAD or BULABAD— Elev. 7,015'.
A small village 15 miles south-west of Nain on the road to Isfahan. It
has a fine caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in good repair which was built in 1652 A.D. Six
miles west from the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). the top of the Bulabad pass is reached,
elevation 8,260', and a mile further the village Faizabad, 8,060'.— (Schindler.)
BILAVAR (Buluk), see MlAN DARBAND.—
BlLAVAR—(Valley) Elev. 5250.'
A valley in Kirmanshah, about 30 miles north of Kirmanshah city. It is
immediately north of the range of hills that bound the Kirmanshah plain
in that direction. It is bounded north by a mass of hills. The valley is
about 27 miles in length from north-west to south-east, and is about 4
miles in breadth. It is separated to the south-east from the Bizarud valley
by a low chain of hills, a spur of the Kuh Baluch. It is bounded west by
the Shahu range. The valley is exceedingly fertile and contains numerous
villages. It is well watered by springs and streams, the principal one
being the Razavar-rud, which forms one of the head-waters of the Kara-
su. The inhabitants are Kurds of the Shi’ah sect and are of the Bilawarl
branch. The valley is governed by a Sartip, who resides in Kirmanshah.
The annual revenue is only 1,300 tumdns and is derived from taxation
on crops. It was fixed at this amount many years ago, and has never been
altered since. This sum is small, and in no way represents the wealth and
produce of the valley. Firewood is procurable from the ranges north
and south of the valley, and from the banks of the Razavar where, in
many places, there is an extensive growth of willows, small trees and
bushes. The peasantry use dried cakes of cow-dung and that of other
animals as fuel. The Hamawand Kurds, two hundred to three hundred
tents, camp in the valley during the summer months. The winter in the
valley is severe, the snow sometimes lying on the ground for three months,
while most of the roads as well as the passes giving entrance to the valley
are impassable. Wheat is reaped early in August, when fruits, such a

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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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