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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [88v] (181/706)
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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164
FAI—FAQ
FAIGHAN—
A ruined village in B rbarud, 76| miles from Burujird on the road thence
to Isfahan.— {Schindler.)
FAIZABAD—
A fortified village, about 56 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan,
via Aminabad.— {Taylor.)
FAKHKABAD—
A village in Damghan district 19 miles south of Damghan, | mile south
west of Frat.— {Schindler.)
FALAK-UD-DlN—
A small village in Upper Silakhur, 1 mile south of Burujird.— {Schindler.)
FALIUN—
A village of the Ardalan district, 2 miles from Sinneh (north of Kir-
manshah) on the road to Kirmanshah.— {Webb.)
FALLAH—
A village in Mazandaran, 8| miles from Sari, on the road from Astrabad
to Tehran, via Barfarrsh, and f a mile from the Slab R:d stream, which
is crossed by an old bridge.— {Napier.)
FAMANlN—
Principal village, with 300 houses, of theDarjazIn district {q. v'.), 36 miles
north-east of Hamadan.— {Schindler.)
FAQlH SUL AIM AN—E le v. 4,840'.
A village of 40 houses, Kurds, standing on a low spur above the right
bank of the Gavarra river, 9 miles above its junction with the Qishlaq or
Sinneh stream. To the south is the Udalan mountain from which the
Nishur valley runs down to the Gavarra river above the village. The
Kirmanshah-Sinneh road runs past the village and the Gavarra river is
forded by it just above. Fields of corn (cut towards the latter part of
July) and some amount of castor-oil, vegetables of kinds, etc., line the
river bank. Grazing is very good; water from springs and the river :
flocks of cattle and sheep. A mile and a half above is the village of
Qishlaq Iskandar : the bridge of Darvesh Beg is the same distance down
stream.— {Burton.) A halting place in Kurdistan, the firg’c from Sinneh on
the road thence to Kir mans!: ah, via Kamiran, and Daka Kulsan. It is
about 34 miles of Sinneh.— {Gerard.)
FAQlREH—
A village of 10 houses, 2 miles south of Hamadan, to the right of the
road to Malayar. It belongs to the Baha-ul-Mulk Karaguzlu and lies on
the slopes of the Alvand ; fine fields and gardens.— {Schindler.)
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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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