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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [85r] (174/706)
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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grazing good; firewood scarce. It forms a good position for troops to
f camp in, the best site being south of the village and garden. Supplies :
100 cows, 900 sheep and goats, 30 donkeys. The place is on the Kara
f Su valley road to Ruvansar and Juanrud.— (Vaughan.)
DOVAN (DEHDOWAN)—
A village a few'miles short of Zarreh, on the road from Tehran to
Hamadan— (Taylor.)
DOZAIR—
A village in the Jam buluk of Samnan, 31 miles from Samnan, at the
foot of the Kuh-i-Sultan Shah Rukh. It has 25 houses, some gardens,
but little water. It is about 7 miles from here to Jam (q.v.). — (Schindler.)
DUAB (1)—
The junction of two streams in Mazandaran, on the road from Sari to
Tehran, and four miles south of Talar Rudbar.— (Ouseley.)
DUAB (2)—
A village close to the plain of Gulpaigan.— (Jones.)
A village between Alavi and Dehak, on the road from Isfahan to
Hamadan via Khunsar. It contains a number of huts and two old caravan-
sarais. It is on the edge of the Gulpaigan plain, and is probably the same
place as above.— (Jones.)
DUDAHAK—
A small village of 40 houses on left bank of the river, which is here crossed
by a brick and stone bridge of 4 arches, it is situated 16 miles n,orth-east
of Mahallat in the province of the same name.— (Schindler.)
DUJAKH—
A ravine in Azirbaljan marking the division of the districts of Miskhin
and Ardabil.— (Todd; Holmes.)
DUJAT (?) or DUJAKHT (?)—
A large village with abundance of water in Azarbaijan, 49 miles west
of Ardabil, on the road from Ahar.— (Holmes.)
DUKHAN—
A district about 120 miles from Tehran, on the road to Hamadan, which
has its name from the village Dukhan (now deserted) on the Tehran-
Hamadan road. The road through this district leading over red marl
and clay gets very heavy after rain.
Old spelling Dukkar (Arab geographers).
DUKKAN-I-DAUD.—
A range of limestone hills running down the Zuhab valley in Kirmanshah,
between Qasr-i-Shirln and Karind. There is a curious sepulchre here
excavated in rock and supposed to be that of some king ; hence the name
Dukkan-i-Daud or “ David’s Shop.” For a description of the monument
see Rabiro’s “ Gazetteer of Kirmanshah.”'— (Taylor ; Plowden.)
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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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