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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎60v] (125/706)

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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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108
BUKA—BURU
undulating ground ; vicinity fertile and Well cultivated ; grazing good ;
water from a stream; firewood from the hills ; supplies 400 cows, a few
sheep and goats.— (Vaughan.)
BURANDASHT KUH. See KUH-I-BURANDASHT.
BUR AN!—
A village in Azarbaijan 6 miles from Sardarud, to the right of the road
thence to Maragheh.— (Schindler.)
BURAQI—
A small village about 6 miles south-west of Daulatabad Malayan.
(Schindler.)
BURBARUD*—In Armenian Burvari. Mean elevation 7,300'.
A small but fertile district in the Japalaq division of the Burujird prov
ince 60 to 85 miles from Burujird on the road to Isfahan. It is bound
ed on the south by Tamandar Kuh, on the west by the Kuh-i-Gul-i-Bahar,
on the east by the Kuh-i-Sar-i-Sul and the Kuh-i-Sar-i-Lak, and joins the
Pacha-i-Lak plain on the north. Its waters drain partly towards the Ab-i-
Diz, partly towards the Gulpaigan plain. Many of its villages are very
poor and some, principally those belonging to the Government, have been
deserted on account of the rapacity of local officials. About 500 Armenian
families reside in 16 of the Burbarud villages, bravely holding their own
against the almost perpetual attacks of the Chahar-lang Bakhtlarl nomads,
who hold the hilly regions to the west.— (Schindler.) <
BURBUR—
A tribe in the Tehran province.
BURDASUZ—
A village of Azarbaijan, east of Saqqiz.— (Gerard.)
BURHAN—
A large village with a fort and about 250 houses, some 14 miles south
east of Sauj Bulagh on the road to Saqqiz.— (Gough.)
BURJ-I-MUKUSHUN,—(Samnanl for Mikushand, they kill)—
A ruined tower in a deep ravine, 106 miles from Tehran on the road
to Meshed. The ravine was formerly the frontier between Traq-i-’Ajam
and Khorasan. The Yul Qupri Bridge (q.v.) is close by and crosses a smaller
ravine running into the first.
BURKlEH—
This is the name given to a small clan of Kurds of 30 or 40 tents who
dwell in the winter at Saru Su, about 1| farsalchs from the village of ’Arab on
the Aras. They form a separate family to the Jalalis or Milan Kurds.
In the summer they migrate to Baba Gavrl in the Kara Aineh (Chaldaran
district), where they spend four or five months of the year. They own
allegiance to the chief of Maku.— (Picot, 1894.)

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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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