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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [68v] (141/706)
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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CHIA—CHIB
contains about 30 houses ; it has no trees ; large crops and cultivation,
water plentiful from streams ; good grazing ; no firewood. Thirty tons
of grain, 150 cows, 600 sheep and goats . About 1 mde north of the town
i& a fine large garden full of trees with a garden house with towers.—
(Vaughan.) Part of Kabud-Khani in the Mahidasht plain. — (Rabino.)
CHIA KUHI—
A village in Kurdistan north-west of Kirmanshah city, near the road ;
from thence to Ruvansar and near the left bank of the Kara Su. It
contains about 20 houses inhabited by Jaf Kurds. I\o trees, crops and
cultivation. Water ; good grazing ; firewood scarce ; 50 cows, 250 sheep
and goats. — (Vaughan.)
CHIA MlRZA (CHEGA MlRZA)—
A village in Kirmanshah on the Kirmanshah plain and about 4 miles north
of the city on the right bank of the Kara-su. It contains about 30 houses
inhabited by Kurds. No trees ; some crops and cultivation; 600 sheep and
goats; no firewood; good grazing—(Vaughan.)
CHlA SAFAR—Kalhur.
village of the Kalhur district. It is also named Lalaban oufla. It
is situated in a small plain above the main road. It is in ruins. It has
no ramjats and no cultivation and is goTTok. At the begmmg of spring
it supplies good pastures known as Gorrok Maimas. Mannas itself is on the
left of the road. It is part of the Kalhur district, and is also ruined. It
has a spring, the water from which crosses the road. Maimas has no inhabi
tants.— (Rabino, 1907.)
CHlA SURKH—
The oil spring of the Anglo Persian Oil Company near Qasr-i-Shirin
(g.v.). See also under Kirmanshah (Province) Resources.
CHlANUSH—
A halting place in Kirmanshah district between that place and Gavarra.—
(Gerard.)
CHlA QASIM—
A village in Kirmanshah, about miles north-west of the city of that
name and situated near the foot of the hills bounding the Kara Su plain
to the south. It contains about 15 houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds.
It has no trees ; some crops and cultivation ; water from a stream ; good
grazing; no firewood ; 50 cows, 300 sheep and goats. (Vaughan.)
CHIA ZAR (CHEGA ZARD)—
A village in Kirmanshah, about 22 miles south-west of that city. It is on
the road to Mahidasht via Bawafan. It contains about 25 houses inhabited
/ by Zanganeh Kurds. No trees ; water from a stream ; some crops and cul
tivation ; good grazing, no firewood ; 300 sheep and goats.— ( Vaughan.)
CHIBLl, See SHIBLl.
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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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