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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎79r] (162/706)

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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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DASHK—DASHT
145
DASHKASAN (1)—
(Turkish the stone-breakers ”) a village in the Faridan division of the
Isfahan province, a mile north of Kholgan. Has its name from some quarries
in the neighbouring hills.— {Schindler.)
DASHKASAN (2)—
(Turkish word, “the stone-breakers.”)
A village in Azarbaijan, situated 1 mile from the east shore of Lake
Urumieh. It contains twenty miserable houses made of a patch work of
tufa stone and fragments of marble stuck together with mud. It is
situated close to the celebrated marble quarries of Maragheh, and 48 miles
from Tabriz.— {Schindler j
DASHLU DARREH (“the stony valley ’).—-
A pass in north-western Azarbaijan 20 miles from Khai on the road to
Kizil Dizeh. JThe gradient on the Zohrabad side is sharp, the road ris
ing from 5,965 to 6,280'. Near the crest on the Khdi side are the ruins
of a fort. At its south-east end the pass is £mile wide.— {Picot, 1894i)
DASHT-I-BlL—
A wide level_ table-land, a few miles south of Ushnii in Azarbaijan
inhabited by llidt Kurds.— {Travers.)
DASHT-I-KALEH—
A fine plain in Kurdistan between Mari van fort and Panjvin, close to
the Turkish frontier—The land is Miri.—(T. C. Plowden.)
D ASHT-I-K AT A V AN—
_ A valley in Kurdistan watered by the Ab-i-Katavan. This valley is
situated between Kalehjuand Astrabad, is fine and open, running east and
west, and not far from the caravan route from Sinneh to Sulaimanieh —
{T. C. Plowden.)
DASHT-I-LAIL—Elev. 4,750'.
Lies east of the Kaleh Zangir mountain, above the valley of the Zimkan
river. The dasht, or so-called plain, consists of the spurs and plateaux at the
head of ravines running to the Zimkan : it contains a few springs of water
round which is clustered the Dasht-i-Lail camp of Guran Kurds belonging to
the brother of ’All Sultan of Kaleh Zangir. The camp consists of 40 huts :
a scanty water-supply : fuel and grass cn the adjacent mountain towards the
Zimkan river. There is some cultivation : the trees in the vicinity have been
destroyed : camp room and some supplies in summer. Paths lead to Kaleh
Zangir camp and to the Zimkan valley. The people migrate to Zuhab for
the winter.— {Butcher.)
DASHT-I-MAST—
A rich valley in Kirmanshah, north-west of Biblan and crossed on the
way from that place to Mir Khasar on the Kirmanshah-Sulaimanleh road,
via Gavarra and Ziihab.— {Rawlinson.)
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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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