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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [60r] (124/706)
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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A village in the Damavand district on the road from Tehran to Dama
vand and Firuzkuh and about 26 miles from Tehran, nearly east. There
is a spring here never dry in ordinary years and a good strip of cultivation.
—{Napier ; Schindler.)
BUMAHIN (2)—
A village 16 miles from KazyTn, on the carriage road to Rasht. The
name has been written Buhamin and is popularly pronounced Buinak.—
{Schindler.)
BUNAB— Lat. 37° 21'; Elev. 4,200'.
Pronounced Binab by the inhabitants. A town in Azarbaljan east of the
south-east corner of lake Urumieh, 12| miles south-east of ’Ajabshir and 71f
miles from Tabriz on the Tabrlz-Kirmanshah road, being situated on the left
bank of the river Safi Chai, over which there is a handsome stone bridge of five
arches south of the town. Bunab has about 700 houses, five covered
bazaars, seven or eight sarais, and is surrounded by extensive high-walled
gardens. As in almost every village in this district, each house forms a
portion of a small block divided off by narrow, ill-paved lanes, never as
much as 20 feet broad, and often less than 10 feet. Each has a central
court or yard, a high wall and strong gate facing the lane, and high walla
on the other three sides ; beyond the court ia usually a small patch of
garden. The walls are built almost entirely of mud, which becomes nearly
as hard as stone. The surrounding vineyards cover from 2 to 10 acres of
ground, are thinly planted, and enclosed by solid mud walls of 12 to 15
feet high, with a single small gate.
Fuel is plentiful and water easily procured. Fruits, meat, etc., are cheap
and abundant. For 4| miles to the north-west of Bunab on the TabrI
road is an antiquated causeway across a muddy end of lake Urumieh.
This causeway is rudely paved with round stones, is 10 feet wide and raised
about 2 feet. Bunab forms a dependency of Maragheh, paying 4,000
tumdns of revenue and furnishing a quota of 400 men to the Azarbaljan
army—an obligation fully■ equivalent to the amount of actual taxation.
Abundance of water is found a few feet beneath the surface, and the vine
yards are thus all provided with wells for irrigation. The Safi Chai rive*
of Maragheh flows along the south outskirts of the gardens, and numerous
canals are derived from it, which contribute to water the town and
vineyards.— {Rawlinson; Thidmann; Napier; Gerard; Schindler.)
BUNABCHAI—
A canal drawn for the Safi Chai, supplying, Bunab with water.—
{Schindler.)
BUNARJlDURA—
A village in Azarbaljan 73 miles from Tabriz, on the road to Urumieh.
There is a little cultivation. It is one mile from the Sutaigu stream —
{Gerard.)
BUNSHALLA—
A village in Kurdistan on the left of the Ruvansir-Juanrud road. It
contains about 30 houses inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis, and is situated on
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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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