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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [62v] (129/706)
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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112
CHAD-CHAH
C
CHADlGHl—
A tribe of Persia, whose chief place is Mlaneh in Azarbaljan. They are
reputed to be very ferocious.— (Morier.)
CHAD A WAR—
A halting place on a track between Kirmanshah and Mandali on the Turkish
frontier. It is in the Kirmanshah district, 3 marches from the latter place
and 6 from Mandali.— (Gerard.)
CHAH AFZAL—
A halting-place between Yazd and Nam, about 192 miles from the latter
place. There is said to be an abundance of good water.— (MacGregor.)
CHAHBAR—
A village, 129 miles from Tehran towards Hamadan in the Dukhan
district.— (Schindler.)
CHAH BiJAR—
A village in Gilan about 10 miles west of Enzall on the shores of the
Caspian.— (Todd.)
CHAH-I-KHARBUZEH—
A halting-place in Yazd, about 24 miles south-west of Anarak, on the road
from Biabanak to Nam. Water procurable.— (MacGregor.)
CHAHJA. See JAHJAH.
CHlH MlLA—
The name of the high ground ihtervening between the Chila and Asmanabad
valleys in Kirmanshah, and also name of a well from which a stream flows
in the spring time. This well is situated at the junction of the road from
Mandali, via Tang-i-Garma-i-Zarna and the Tang Ism’ailu, to Karind with
that from Gilan into Asmanabad. It is a wooded spot with good grazing and
is a mile or so south of the Timanjik and Amrula passes over the Kaluja range.
A well, 4 miles south-east of it at the head of the Asmanabad valley, is known
by the same name. The wells are dug to a depth of about 12 feet, and are full
and overflowing in the spring. In the autumn the water is 2 or 3 feet below
the level of the ground. The well first referred to supplies a camping ground
for Ilidts and for caravans. (This is the same place as Charmilla in
Maunsell’s route.)— (Vaughan.)
chAh nau—
A well in Yazd, about 2 miles off the road from Yazd to Biabanak between
Anjlrak and Khuranak. Good water.— (MacGregor.)
chAhzAr—
A hamlet of 15 people, 14 miles from Ardakan on the road to Anarak;
brackish water from a kandt. Sweet water collected in an Abambdr ; sup
plies, very scanty.— (Sykes.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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