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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [82r] (168/706)
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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It has 40 houses, all of mud, with domed roofs. There is a great and ne
sarai here, and the remains of a strong old fort, called Kalat Shir, said t
have been built by a former king named Muhammad Musafir, there being
a fine inscription to that effect in enamelled tile-work over the gateway.
The fort is built on aflat-topped hill to the east, with scarped sides like the
“ droogs ” of Southern India.—(MacGTe^or.)
DEHSlS—
A village in Khamseh, 6 miles from Zin jan, on the road to Sultanieh, from
which it is 18 miles distant. It is a well-built village, with walls and towers
all round, and a small citadel in the centre. The vegetation round is ex
tremely luxuriant and rich.— (Morier. 1
DEH SURKH—
A little village in Lower Sllakhur. • .
DEH TUEH—
I s visible above the right bank of the gorge of the Zalan river, where it
circles the Saraban mountain on its way to the Zimkan: the village stands
about 3 miles north of the Juanrud-Zimkan road, at a point 6^ miles from
Juanrud. Wood, water and grass are abundant. The country round is a
mass of wild mountains and deep-cut and intricate ravines.—(Rwrfcm.)
dharI—
A sect of the Sufis of Persia. They believe the world is uncreated and
indissoluble, and conceive that man is taught his duties by a^ mysterious
order of priesthood, whose numbers are fixed and who rise m gradation
from the lowest paths to the sublimest height of divine knowledge.-
(Malcolm.)
DHULQADR— _
One of the divisions of the powerful Kizilbash tribes ; very few now
remain, they reside in Azarba’jan. (Schindler.)
DlALA—or UPPER DlALA alias AB-I-SHlRVAN (q.v.)
A river in Ku rdistan, which takes its rise in the mount ains above Avro-
man and runs in a south-westerly direction along the Turkish frontier as far
as Khaniqin, where it turns more to the west and enters Turkish territory.
It is also called Shirvan, Rohava, and Rakameh.—(Gerard ; St. John.)
dIavara—
A stage in Kirmanshah on the road from Kirmanshah to Mandali.
DIKAN, DAKAN (DUQAN ?)—
A village 26| miles from Kazvin to the left of the post-road thence to
Tabriz.— (Schindler.)
dilavan— .
A village in Kurdistan of about 20 houses siutated on the eastern slope
of the Tableh Kuh, a few hundred feet above the Gava-rud. Trees, crops
and cultivation; supplies: 300 sheep and goats ; good
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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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