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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [69r] (142/706)
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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CHIB—CHIL
125
CHIBCTQLU (1)—
A village of 20 houses in the Dukhan district, 124 miles from Tehran,
on the right of the road to Hamadan.— {Schindler.)
CHIBUQLU (2)—
A small village in Azarbaijan, on the southern shore of the Urumleh
lake, 4J miles north-west of Malikkandl— {Schindler.)
CHIBUQLU (3)—
Commonly pronounced Chapuqlu or Chapuqli. Described by Kinneir
100 years ago as a ruined town in Persian Kurdistan between Sinneh and
Hamadan. It has since recovered and is now connected with Sinandii
by telegraph. It is 37 miles from Sinandij and 49 from Hamadan.—
{Schindler.)
CHIBUQ OGLU—
The second halting stage from Sultanleh on the road to Hamadan.—
{Morier.)
CHICHAKTU—
A small village in the Sain Kaleh district of Azarbaijan, 8| miles from
Khashwar, on the road to Sain Kaleh from Maragheh. It has ten houses
with a new and well built mud fort, having four solid flanking towers and
certain walls of about 150 yards— {Napier. )
CHIGIN—
A halting place on the Qarangu river in Azarbaijan on the road from
Mianeh to Maragheh. It is situated in exceedingly fertile country .—
{Morier.)
CHIGlNl—
A tribe of 2000 tents which camps between Manjil and Kazvin. Their
chief, are Abdin Khan Sartip, Muhammad Riza Khan Sartip, Sulaiman
Khan Yavar and ’Azizullah Khan Sarhang.— (Rabino, 1909.)
CHIGlNlKUSH— also CHINGlNlKUSH—
A small village in Upper Silakhur, 6 miles from Burujird.—(Mmd/er.)
CHI KU VAR—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali.— {q.v.)
CHILLA VALLEY—
A valley in Kirmanshah in the Kalhur Sardsir, about 45 miles south
west by west of Kirmanshah city.
It is about 13 miles in length from north-west to south-east, and varies
in breadth from two to three miles ; to the north-west it runs into the Gllan
valley, being watered by the same stream. Its elevation at Kaleh Shah
Taqi, an ancient ruin at the lower end of the valley, is 3,860 feet, and at
the higher or south-east end is 4,435 feet. It is filled to a great extent by
low hills which follow the general run of the mountain chains between
which it is situated, viz.\ from north-west to south-east. The ranges on
either side rise from 1,000 to 1,400 feet above it and are well-wooded
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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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