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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎65r] (134/706)

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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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CHAN—CHAS
117
CHANGUR— Elev. 5,290'.
A hamlet of 12 houses of the Sinjabi district of Kirmanshah situated on
the south side of the Panj Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. pass and hill. Twenty houses of boughs
are added in summer by immigrants from lower parts. The valley above is
thickly-wooded with dwarf oak, as are the slopes of the surrounding moun
tains ; below the village it expands into a bare and grassy plain surrounded by
hills. Water is plentiful; there is some cultivation, and several thousand
sheep are pastured in summer. The people are Guran Kurds ; a road from
Gahvareh to Harunabad passes the village, also several diverging tracks.—•
{Burton.)
CHANUM—
A village about 9 miles south of Sinn eh on the hills on the left bank of the
Shirvan river. About 30 houses, a few trees, water and cultivation.
CHAPKHALEH or CHAFKHALEH—
The western arm of the Sangarud river, which loses itself in the small
lagoons along the coast.— {Rabino.)
CHAPUGLI—CHABUGLI or CHIBUGLl—See CHIBUQLU (3.)
CHAR—
A village in Azarbaijan close to Uladi on the Tabriz-Mosul road, vid
Urumieh and Ruwandiz.— {Ainsworth.)
CHARBAS—
A large village in Burbarud, 2 miles from Malikabad and to the right of
the road from Burujird to Isfahan, 68 miles from the former place.— {Schind
ler.)
CHARGAR—
A village in the Khudabandehlu (Sultanieh) sub-district of Khamseh 12
miles east of Sultanieh.— {Schindler.)
CHARKAS, or CHARSKASH (?). Probably CIRCASSIANS—
A tribe of Persia mentioned by Malcolm. He gives no clue to their
numbers, locale, or anything else.— {Malcolm.)
CHARMILLA—see CHAH MlLA— r
CHARNU—
A halting-place in Kurdistan between Sinneh and Kirmanshah, about
20 miles from the former place.— {Gerard.)
CHAR PARI—
An abundant stream in Azarbaijan, running past the village of Kara
Ziazin, on the road from Khoi to Nakhichevan (Russia), vid Nasik and
’Abbasabad.— {MacGregor.)
CHASHMEH—
A village, 14 miles from Varpusht, to the left of the road from Isfahan to
Burujird. Has the tomb of an Imammdeh, Ahmad Riza ; Armenians say
an Armenian priest was buried there 200 years ago.— {Schindler.)
CHASHMEH AHUAN—see AHUAN.

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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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