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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [75v] (155/706)
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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138
DAE—DAR
Muhammad Qasim. Cultivation, grain. A path, starting from the foot of
the Zan^alian range, goes towards Darakeh and thence to Kaleh Hasan Beg.
The Zan^alian range of mountains is crossed at 2 farsakhs from Kirmanshah
by the Kirmanshah-Mahidasht road, at a spot called Gardaneh’Am-ul-
Kush. At the foot of the pass and on the right, alongside the road, is the
cemetery of Darakeh.”— (Leleux, 1903.)
DARASTANEH—
A village in lower Silakhur, about 16| miles from Burujird by the road
on the right of the Tahlj river.— [Schindler.)
DAR BALA—
A range of mountains north-east of Nimagird in Faridam—(ScAW-
ler.)
DAR BALU—
Stands on a spur i mile east of the road from Kaleh Zangir to Gavarra
about 1 mile south-east of Binar. To the south lies a well-watered and
fertile valley on which are grazed large flocks of sheep. Water, wood
and forage abundant, and supplies in summer: the people migrate for
the winter to Zuhab: room for camping. Inhabitants are of the
KulkhanI section of the Guran Kurds belonging to ’Ali Sultan of Kahh
Zangir.— (Burton.)
D ARB AND (1)—
A village, 48§ miles from Burujird, on the road from Isfahan to that
place.— (Schindler.)
DARBAND (2)—
A small village with a spring, some cultivation and a few trees, ^ about
19 miles south-west of Mahallat, on the road from Qum to Gulpaigan. -
(Bell, 1884.)
DARBAND (3)—
A fort on the.right bank of the Safld Rud, Tarum district of Khamseh,
and formin" the boundary between Tarum-i-Khalkhal and Tarum-i-Pain.
It is placed on an isolated and most precipitous hill immediately over-
hanging the river, and the country on this side of the river is of a most
difficult and precipitous nature, so much so that the travellers from
Tarum-i-Paln to Zinjan are obliged to cross into Pusht-i-Kuh below the
fort, and then follow the left bank to a ford, below Q\&h\^.—(RawUnson.)
DARBAND (4)—
Two villages in Azarbaijan, one belonging to Ushnu and the other to
Sulduz.— (Fraser .)
DARBAND (5)—
A village in the Hamadan province on the northern slopes of the Mushtavar-
dagh, a few miles south of Nuvaran.— (Schindler.)
DARBAND-I-KHAN—
A pass in Kurdistan between Halabji and Baneh Khiian on the road from
! Gulambar.— (Rich, from native inf^rmation.)
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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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