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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎78v] (161/706)

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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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14:4
DAR—DAS
DAR-U-DARAFSH—Elev. 4,98C'.
Three villages in Kirmanshah on the road thence to Juanrhd, and about
20 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city. The first village situated to the
north, contains about 15 houses, the second, 1J miles south-east of it, has
20 houses, while the third, situated 2^ miles south-east of the second,
has 20 bouses. All the villages are inhabited by Kurds. They have no
trees. Each has some crops and cultivation, and they all draw their
water from wells, animals watering at the Kara Su, a few miles to the
east. Supplies : eh pped straw, 400 cows, 1,200 sheep and goats, also
10 horses and 50 donkeys. Grazing good ; no firewood : troops can camp
in the vicinity, but it is unlikely that the wells would supplv more than
| 400 men and animals. Roads from here to Mahidasht about 16 miles,
and to Juanrud 30 miles.— (Vaughan.)
DARVAR—
Is the principal village of the small but fertile and flourishing district call
ed Tuyeh (also Tu) Darvar, between Samnan and Damghan, and a few
miles to the north-west of Qusheh on the high road. It belongs to the Samnan
sub-province and has a mine, which supplies lead to the Tehran arsenal.—
(Schindler.)
DARVAT—
A village of Garan Kurds of the Kulkhanl section: contains 30 houses
and is part of the tribe of ’All Sultan of Kaleh Zangir. It lies | mile'to
the west of the road from Kaleh Zangir to Gavarra in a side valley at the
base of a wooded mountain rising steeply behind. It is distant south
east of Binar, 4| miles by the road from Kaleh Zangir. Water, wood and
grass plentiful: supplies in summer : the people migrate to Zuhab in winter —
(Burton.)
DARVAZEH (1) See SANDUKEH—
A dangerous passage on the Kutal-i-Jahannuma, which lies between
Astarabad city and the Chaman-i-Savar. Both in Mazandaran .—(Rabino )
DARVAZEH (2)—
A village at the northern end of the Dukhan district
slopes of the Kizil Dagh, to the right of the road from
dan.— (Schindler.)
on the southern
Tehran to Hama-
darvTjnan—
s Jh he 4^:r ion of ae KliaIaai clan of Kalhrirs ’ a tribe of K!rm5n '
DASHEH—
hal 5 in . g P lace on t tlie road from Kirmanshah to SulaimanJe
riT r ;V a ^ A r^ a r t77mileS north -westof Kirmanshah,
(l. B. Q. M. G. s Dept., W. O., 1881, Part II.)

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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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