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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [77r] (158/706)
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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The principal cultivation is wheat. Some barley is also grown.
A great number of carpets are woven here, b it they are not of very fine
quality; they are exported to Europe via Tabriz or Baghdad. The
Shahsavans camp in the district during the summer.
DARKHUR—
A village situated on the side of hills to the north of the valley of
Zabiri, on a streami called Hajigah (?), between Hartinabad and Mahl-
dasht, in the province of Kirmanshah.— {Jones.)
DAR MULl—(Same as DAIR MULI q.v.)
A village in Kurdistan of about 30 houses situated high upon the eastern
slope of Kup, the lofty Udalan. Water from a spring; no trees; supplies :
1,000 sheep and goats; good grazing.— {Vaughan.)
DARNEH—
A defile in Kurdistan traversed by the Ab-i-Shlrvan, containing ruins
of a town and castle, used formerly as a stronghold on account of its ad
vantageous position. Pashas of Zuhab used to be called Lords of Darneh.—
{Rawlinson.)
DARRAM—
A village in Azarbaljan, on the left bank of the KlzTl tlzun, situated
in a beautiful and well-wooded valley. There is a palace of the Governor
of Zinjan here, where he passes a great part of the winter. The river
at this point is only fordable when the water is very low, but a bridge has been
. erected over it.— {Monteith.)
A valley in Azerbaijan, in the Pusht-i-Kuh district, on the north of
Safld Riid. It is surrounded with gardens, and contains a palace built by
a Royal Prince of Persia.— {Rawlinson.)
DARREH (1)—
A village in the Mian Kuh sub-division of the province of Yazd.— {Mac
Gregor.)
DARREH (2)—
A village about 46 miles from Sultanabad on the road to Burujird.—
{Schindler.)
DARREH ABARlK—
A plain in the Krimanshah district inhabited by the Shahrlk, Warmaziar
and Khaman clans of Kalhurs during the winter.— {T. C. Plowden.)
DARREHBID (Willow valley)—
A village on the Qaiz plateau in the Tirunkarvan district, 24| miles from
Varpusht, a couple of miles to the left of the road from Isfahan to Burujird.—
{Schindler.)
DARREH BUZURGEH—
A fertile plain between the Kainal and Tajar mountains on the road
between Nihavand and Daulatabad; it extends northwards to the Ab-i-
Kulan and has many villages belonging to the Malayar district.— {Schind
ler.)
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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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