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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [69v] (143/706)
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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126
CHA—CHI
the ravines, especially those on the south slope into the valley, being densely
crowded with trees chiefly oak. The place is well watered by springs and
streams and the grazing is good. It is inhabited by the Siah Kurds under
Akbar Khan. They number 1,000 tents; of which about half are in this
valley. In winter they move down, leaving, however, 200 tents at Kaleh
Shah Taqi, which remain there all the year round. The tribe owns a
certain number of horses and mules as well as large herds of sheep and
goats, which latter probably number not less than five or six thousand.
(Vaughan.)
chalah!—
A sub-section of the Kalhur tribe in Kirmanshah, which, with the Chupan-
kareh sub-section, numbers about a hundred families.— (Plowden.)
CHILAWAR—
A range of mountains between Isfahan and (Schindler.)
CHILIBlANLU—
A tribe of Azarbaijan, 1,500 tents and houses.
CHILIK—
A village in Kurdistan inhabited by Tartars, situated on the left bank
: of the Jaghatu river, north of Sauj Bu\agh.—(RawUnson; Thielmann.)
CHILlYAND—
A river in Azarbaijan running into the Caspian not far from Astara.
It is crossed 10 miles from Astara on the road from Tabriz to Rasht, via
Ardabil and Enzali. It is dangerous owing to quicksands, and requires
an experienced guide to assist in fording it. It forms a sand bank at its
mouth.—(IF. Holmes.)
CHILNU—
A halting place 21 miles from Uganuri (?) on the Shushtar-Isfahan
road, via Bazuft and Kahurukh.— (Mackenzie.)
CHINAR—
A village owned by peasant proprietors, containing 80 houses, 350
people, situated on the southern slopes of the mass of hills behind Injedan,
19 miles from Kashan on the road to Sultanabad.
There is a “ Kaleh ” on a low sandstone hill, from which the whole
Khumain valley is seen.. Khumain itself being some 41 miles distant. The
village is watered by a spring ; 18,200 lbs. of grain are sown yearly. There are
about 20 looms in the place. Taxes 150 tumdns.—(Preece, P>93.)
CHINAS—
A village 46| miles from Kazvin to the left of the post road thence to
Tabriz, and on the Abhar river.— (Schindler.)
CHINGINlA— Elev. 3,550'.
A village in Kurdistan 10 miles from Mama Kulan on the road to
Sulaimanieh situated on the edge of a deep ravine.—(Gerard.)
CHINGlNl KUSH—
A village in Upper Silakhur 6 miles from Burujird.— (Schindler.)
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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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