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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [80v] (165/706)
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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148
DAZ—DEH
DAZll E.CfD—
A river of Azarbaijan, which rises not far from Mount Sahand, and
flows towards the lake of Urumieh about the Safi Chai. A great number
of aqueducts are derived from the stream of Dazia Rud, which fertilise the
; surrounding lands below Shishavan. A dam has been built across the
bed of the river, which throws the remainder of the water into the canals
employed also for irrigation.—(ijWfo'wsow.)
DEH ABAD or DEHABAD— I
A village of 180 houses, 36 miles from Kashan, on the high road to Yazd
in the Badrud district of Natanz.— {Schindler.) ^
DEH-’ALI-VARDI—
A village of fifty houses, about 94 miles from Kirmanshah on the road
thence to Tabriz, situated on a level plain.— {Nayier.)
DEH ASGHAR—
A village with plenty of good water in Yazd, 24 miles west of Gojar
on the road from Naiband.— {Stewart.) T1
DEHAT—
The second stage on the Kashan-Yazd road, via Nam, 27 miles east- n
south-east of the town of Kashan.— [Kinneir.)
DEH BAGH—
A village in Kirmanshah, abaut 30 miles north-west of the city and on
' the road to Ruvansar up the Kara Su valley. It contains from 15 to 20
houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds. Water, crops and cultivation .
good grazing ; supplies ; 200 sheep and goats ; firewood scarce—(Fau^an.j
DEH BUNEH—
A village in GUan, 13 miles from Rasht on the road thence to Kazvln.
{Schindler.)
DEH BUZAN—
A village between Kangavar and Hamadan, 16 miles from the former.
It has a spring.— {Taylor.)
DEH DAR—
The first stage from Kirmanshah on the road to Gavarra.— {Gerard.)
DEH GGLAN—
A village, situated on the banks of a stream of good water, about 40
i miles south-east of Sinneh on the road to Hamadan. It is in the Ardalan
district of Kurdistan. It has about 140 houses.— {Gerard.)
DEH-GUMEH—
A ruined village, 8 miles from Karin towards Kirmanshah.— {Jones.)
DEH HAQ— Lat. 33° T 21";> Long. 50° 56' 24".
A village of 800 houses and a population of 4,500 souls ; in the Taridan j)
division of the Isfahan province, and the third stage from Isfahan to Hamadan,
vid Sultanabad, about 50 miles north-west of Isfahan. The yearly produce *
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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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