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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎85v] (175/706)

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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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DUL—DUR
DtiLAB—
A village a mile east of Tehran, on the main caravan route.
DUMBENEH—
77| miles from Isfahan at the extremity of the Dalan range on the
boundary between the Tirun and Faridan districts, 5 miles north-east of
Darun. A fairly large village with a partly ruined Kakh in the centre,
| belonging to peasant proprietors : it contains two parishes, 300 houses,
population 1,500. There are a number of good springs about, which, with
a small stream from a marsh opposite the village. There are 50 pairs
of oxen for plough here and 65,000 lbs. of grain are sown yearly ; taxes
200 tumdns ; 1,000 cows and 500 sheep to be had.— (Preece, 1893.)
DUMB!.—Elev. 6,199'.
An old caravansarai and hamlet of two houses on the road from Kashan
to Isfahan via Natanz, 31^ miles from the former, 19| from the latter,
The water is bitter here.— (Schindler.)
DUM-I-KAMAR, or MIANDASHT — Lat. 33° V 30"; Long. 50° 13' ;
Elev. 7,860'.
A small village in the Faridan Mahall, at the junction of the road from
Qum via Gulpaigan and Khunsar, with the Isfahan-Burujird road.—
(Bell, 1884.)
DUM-I-SHiTIR—
A large caravansani in Kirmanshah, close to the large villages of
Parrispar and Harunabad on the road from Dauktabad to Kangavar. It
was originally intended to have been a large village, but when Mr. Floyer
passedthroughitinl876there was only one wretched family living there.—
(Floyer.)
A village of 150 houses 800 people with a caravansarai 15 miles from
Farasbeh on the road to Daulatabad from which it is the same distance ;
people half Kurds, half from Fars. Water from a kandt, insufficient for
ground owned, 60 pairs of plough oxen, 65,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly.—
(Preece.)
DUNA—
A village in Azarbaijan on the road from Shaikh Ahmad to Sauj Bulagh
about 7 or 8 miles north-east of the former place.— (Gerard.)
DURBINKUH—(The Telescope Hill)—
An isolated peak at the eastern end of the Shahu peninsula; is so called
on Khanikoff’s map of Azarbaljan. The name is not known to the in
habitants of the district, and I think that Khanikoff’s guides seeing him
look at the hill through a telescope or perhaps take its bearings with a
theodolite, invented the name themselves.— (Schindler.)
DURlZAN—
A village 127 miles from Tehran, on the road to Hamadan.—(>ScAtwd^r.)

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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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