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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎80r] (164/706)

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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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DAU—DAZ
147
DAULATABAD (2)—Lat. 36° 4' 37"; Long. 54° 9'16"; Elev.
{Lemm.)
A village with a population of 1,100, 11| miles west of Damghan. It
is one of the prettiest villages in Persia, and has a good deal of cultiva
tion round it ; it is well planted with trees and has a good stream of water
running through it. There is a dilapidated little fort. There are reported
to be large numbers of camels here ; 3,000 could possibly be obtained.—
{Schindler.)
DAULATABAD (3)— Elev. 4,570'.
A small village of 20 houses, about 40 miles south-west of Qum, on the
road to Gulpaigan. The ground around is well irrigated and cultivated.
The Anarbar or Qum river is close by. It is situated in the province of
Mahallat, but belongs to ’Iraq.— {Schindler.)
DAULATABAD (4).—
A small village, 61 miles from Isfahan on the road to Burujird, occU'
pied by Armenians.— {Preece, 1893.)
DAULATABAD (5)—
A village a mile south of Shah ’Abdul ’Azlm on the right of the Tehran
Qum road. Its field extends to Bihishti {q.v.) 19 houses.— {Rabino, 1899.)
DAVADGAR— Lat. 37° 40' 37"; Long. 47° 11' 0".
A caravansarai, 411 miles from Mianeh, on the road thence to Tabriz.—
{Schindler.)
DAYAIZA(?) DUVAISSEH.—
A village in Persian Kurdistan, containing 100 houses, about 11 miles
from Sinnch on the road thence to Sulaimanleh. The inhabitants of this
village are mostly engaged in trade, not agriculture. The men are carriers,
and are employed in charge of the caravan, which passes between Sulaimanieh,
Sinneh and Hamadan. The village belongs to the uncle of the Vazir of Kur
distan, and pays only a light assessment of 100 tumdns per annum; the
revenue, according to the standard imposed on other villages, would be about
three times that sum. The people are Sunnis, and, like the Kurds in general,
entertain a special reverence for Abd-ul-Qadir Gilani, whose masjid and
tomb are at Baghdad. They call him their Imam, their Khalifeh.
The price of wheat at Davaiza was 2 tumdns per 100 Tabriz! mans^
and of barley 1| Inmans. — {T. C. Plowden. )
DAVILA—
A village, 56| miles from Burujird to the right of the road, thence to
Isfahan.— {Schindler. )
DAZ-GARREH—
A glen between Khing and Rudbar, north-west of Damghan. The
level bottom of the glen has a length of about one and-a-half miles, and a
breadth of half a mile. It is well watered and cultivated, and drains into
the plains near Damghan. It ends in a narow defile with high precipices
on either side—a perfect natural fortress.— {Napier.)

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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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