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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎92r] (188/706)

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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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GAM—GAN
m
OALUGAH—Lat. 36° 46'; Long. 54°.— (Napier.)
A village in Mazandaran. The stream of the same name forms the fron
tier line between Mazandr.ran and Astrabad. The village c m tains
about 3,000 inhabitants. The country west of Galugah is comparatively
open and well cultivated, and a certain amount of wheat is grown. It is
28 miles from Astrabad.— (Napier.)
GAMAKAVU (Hill range)—
A range of hills which rises 3 miles north of Tangah village, and runs south
east, changing its name to Dar-i-Baru, Kuh-i-Shah, and Shak Maidan,
past Anarak to Luristan. It increases in height as it goes south-east and joins
the intricate system, which forms the northern frontier of Luristan.—
(Soane, 1912.)
GAMASlAB or GAMAStJ—
A river of Persia, formed by the junction of three streams, all of which
spring from the east of Kirmanshah. The first, and most inconsiderable
has its commencement about 25 miles west of Hamadan. The second has
three springs on the side of Mount Alvand, 6 or 8 miles south of that place.
The latter runs south-west till it meets the former on the plain of Maran
about 10 miles south-west of Kangavar; and at a spot nearly 10 miles
south of that place, it is joined by the third, or chief branch, the Ab-i-
Kulan, which comes from the Guran mountains by a north-west course
of about 40 miles.
The trunk of the three united streams under the above name then winds
for nearly thirty miles in a general direction to BIsitun, where it is crossed
by the Harsin road, 19 miles east of Kirmanshah, and is here a broad stream
with a smooth and rapid current. The width is 40 yards and the depth
2 feet 6 inches : the banks and bed are of gravel and the gradient gentle;
250 yards below is a pier in the centre of the stream used for a flying bridge
when the ford is impracticable. At this celebrated spot the Gamasiab
receives the Ab-i-DInavar coming from the north, and again, after a course
of about 12 miles nearly south-west, another stream, called the Kara Sh
passing through Kirmanshah at about 20 miles north-north-west of that
place. From this point it is called the Kara Su. Schindler says the Kalan
and Nihavand streams together form the Gamasiab. Plowden says the
Gamasiab and Kara Su join 15 miles from Kirmanshah.— (Chesney, Schind
ler ; Plowden Butcher.) (See Rabino’s Gazetteer of Kirmanshah.)
GANADAR—
A village in western Kurdistan, 30 miles eouth-west of Sauj Bulagh, and
near Mabava, a Persian fort, on the road to Raiat. It is almost in ruins
now.— (Gerard.)
GAN-AGACH—
A village and glen on the southern border of Azarbaljan. It lies one
mile west of the road from Sain Kaleh to Bijar and is 29 miles from the lat
ter. It has forty houses and water.— (Napier.)

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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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