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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [81v] (167/706)
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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DEHL—DEHS
DEH-LUR—
A village, about 36 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Tehran. (Trot
ter.)
DEH MIR—
A village between Yarpnsht and Dehak, on the road from Isfahan to
Kirmanshah .—(J ones.)
DEH NAMAK— Lat. 35° 15' 5"; Long. 52° 44' 0"; Elev. 2,750'.
A village of 70 houses, 88 miles from Tehran on the road to Meshed.
There is a fine caravansarai here, containing 24 good rooms, built by
Shah Isma’il, in the 17th century. The plae<? has two ice-cellars, large
water cisterns, a chaparkhaneli and a ruined fort in which 13 families were
living in 1885. The water which comes from the hills to the north is
brackish ; the soil exudes salt and is, therefore, the people say, favourable
to melon’cultivation. Some of the Deh-i-Namak melons can rival the best
of Kashan. The village pays n o mdliat (revenue); its cornfields measure hard
ly 100 acres. Supplies are brought from Khar. Five miles north-east of
? Deh-i-Namak is a salt quarry.—(Schindler.)
DEH NAU—
A village of 15 houses, 19 miles from Hamadan on the road to Burujird;
also called Naudeh.—(ScAwto.)
DEH-NUN—
A village in Isfahan district, 6 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Yazd.
No supplies are procurable.— (Abbott.)
DEH NtSH—
A village, 8 miles from Kangavar, on the road to Hamadan.— (Tay
lor.)
DEH QASIM-KHAN—
A village slightly ofi the road between Sultanabad and Burujird, about
37 miles from the latter.
DEH SAFAK—
A village in Kurdistan on the left of the road from Kirmanshah to Juanrud,
and about 44 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city. It contains about
12 houses inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis, and is situated on a fertile plain.
f Water plentiful from a stream on whose bants grow a few willow trees.
Supplies : 400 cows, 10 donkeys, a few sheep and goats : good grazing; fire
wood scarce.— (Vaughan.)
DEH SAFlD—
A village, 5 miles beyond Harunabad, on the road from Karind to Kir
manshah .—(J ones.)
DEH SHIR—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh division of Yazd, is situated 5 miles
from, and on the southern slope of, the hills to the north of the Abar-Kuh
plain, aud has a great deal of cultivation, all in terraces and well watered.
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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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