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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [63r] (130/706)
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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CHAI—CHAL
113
CHAT GURNlH—
A village in Azarbaijan, about 25 miles south of Tabriz, on the road from
Sauj Bulagh.— {Gerard.)
CHAT KAMAR or CHALKAMAR—
A village of 40 houses in the Sain Kaleh district of Azarbaijan, situated
on the banks of a small stream flowing west-south-west towards the Jaghatu
river and lake between Lailan and Kasha war, 5| miles from the latter place.
—(Napier.)
CHAT PlR—
A river of Azarbaijan, which rises in the range between it and Van, and,
flowing east past Kara Ziazin, joins the Khoi river just above where it falls
into the Aras. It is termed an “ abundant stream.”— (Morier.)
CHAT SHAl—
The dry gravelly bed of a stream, running past lirumieh at a distance of
about a mile.— (Gerard.)
CHAKHAWAR—
A large caravansarai of burnt brick, about 33 miles from Yazd and the
road from Naiband. There are five or six wells of good water, but no inhabit
ants.— (Stewart.)
CHAKILICHAl—
A small stream in the Kirmanshah province between Karind and
Harunabad, close to the latter place, which is situated on it—(Taylor.)
CHALABAN—
A village in Azarbaijan about 20 miles due north of Ahar. Called Chala-
lan on the one inch to sixteen mile map, and Kalipar by the Persian Govern
ment telegraph administration, of which there is an office here.
CHALAIfO—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 19 miles south-west of Tzhilz.—(Schindler.)
CHALANDAR—
A village in Mazandaran, a short distance from the south shore of the
Caspian Sea, and on the bank of the Duzdakrud, 28 miles west of Amul.
(Holmes.)
CHALAWI— (or CHALABl)—
A section of the Sinjabis, a tribe living in the Kirmanshah district, occupy
ing a tract which extends from Mahidasht to Chelleh and Zaluab, which is 8
farsakhs (about 26 miles) to the west of Kirmanshah. They are noted for
the breeding of mules, but the three years’ famine told heavily on their
resources, and they are not in a prosperous condition. They are about
1,000 families, and are subject to no one. Their chief occupation is
robbery. It is also the name of a village in Mahidasht containing 30
families. Water from wells.— (Plowden—Rabino 1907.)
CHALDdEA—
The Chaldsean country is on the north-west side of lake Urumieh on
the Turkish frontier,
C300GSB
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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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