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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎89v] (183/706)

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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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166
FAR—FIT
FARSUIN or PARSlN—
A village 64 miles south-west of Zinjan and 32| miles south-west of
Kazvin, to the left of the post road thence to Tabriz. The Kazvln district
ends here and the Zinjan or Khamseh district begins. It lies on the Abhar
river; plenty of cultivation; and the'neighbourhood abounds in game.—
{Schindler.)
FARUKHl or FIRAKHl— Elev. 2,960'.
Eight miles north-west of Khur. A town containing about 150 houses
and 400 inhabitants. The surrounding gardens and three adjacent mazra’els
contain an immense number of trees. In the centre of the town are
the ruins of a fort. There is a considerable amount of cultivation. Water
plentiful from a stream 6'xl' flowing rapidly, and full of fish. It is a
trifle brackish. Drinking water is obtained from five large hauz, which
supply the inhabitants throughout the year. Firewood plentiful. About
1,000 sheep and 600 goats.— {Vaughan, 1890.)
FARUKHZAD—
A village in the Sulduz plain in Azarbaijan, on the Ushnii frontier.—
(Rawlinson.)
FASARUN or FASARAN—
Twenty-four miles east of Isfahan. A fairly prosperous village of 30
houses (150 people), belonging to the Shah, watered by leads from the-
river. It pays 100 tvmdns a year in taxes. There are eight pairs of oxen
for the plough here and 50 kharwdrs (32,500 lbs.) of barley.—(Preece, 1892.)
FASHAND— Elev. 5,270'.
A large village of 700 houses, paying 420 tumdns cash and 120 kharwdrs
grain (35 tons) per annum,. 5| miles from Yangi Imam (bearing to Yangi
Imam 193° ) half-way between Tehran and Kazvin. Rich coal beds in
neighbourhood.— {Schindler.)
FASHARK or FASHARQ— Long. 52° 15' 45".— (F%er.)
A village in the Isfahan province, 43 miles from Isfahan on the road to
Yazd. It is described as a prettv village, situated close under the moun
tains, and contains some 50 or 60 houses, surrounded by gardens and
groves. Wheat crops are here sown in autumn and reaped in June yielding
6 to 10-fold ; the ground is then sown with a species of Indian corn. Bar
ley is sown in spring and reaped almost the same time as the wheat.—
{Abbott ; Floyer.)
FASIRABAD—
A pass in the Aq Dagh mountains in Persian Kurdistan, crossed
by the Tabrlz-Kirmanshah caravan route between Kizil Bulagh and
Khusurabad. The pass offers no serious obstruction to a lightly equip
ped force, or to the construction of a permanent military road,—
{Napier.)
FATHABAD—
A small village in the Damghan district, 11 miles east of Qusheh and
13 miles south-west of Damghan.— {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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