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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [98v] (201/706)
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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184
GAY—GAZ
here runs in two channels, each 30 yards wide, separated by a gravelly
bank or island : in the summer months the left channel only holds water,
the stream at midsummer being 10 yards wide and 2 feet deep of clear and
good water. During the melting of the snows, the river is unfordable and is
crossed 200 yards above the ford at a narrow point by a temporary wooden
bridge. The valley here is broad and cultivated: on the left bank
it slopes 2 miles low hills, on spur of which is village of Kaleh commanding
the ford and bridge. Height 5,500 feet.
It is crossed by a caravan route from Kirmanshah to Sinneh, 14 miles
south of Girdakanu. It is crossed by the Kirmanshah-Bijar road between
Sunqur and Bisitun, 21£ miles from the former; it is here a small
stream, with a descent to it of 300 feet, fordable, except* in flood, with
sound bottom.
The Gaveh-Rud valley is in the Sunqur district of Kirmanshah.—
(Napier; Vaughan; Schindler, 1902.)
gavsowAr—
A village on the road between Hamadan and Sultanleh, three stages
from the latter; it is situated in a plain.— (Morier.)
GAZ (1)—
A village 3 miles north-east of Damghan, to the left of the road to Skah-
r ud.— (Schindler. )
GAZ (2)— Lat. 320° 48' 15" (St. Jo/m.)—Kiev. 5,400'.
A large village, chief place of the Barkhar buluk of the Isfahan province,
11 miles from Isfahan on the road to Tehran. It is situated in the midst
of cultivation and has a good caravansarai. It is in the form of an enclo
sure, 800 yards by 500 yards, and flanked by round towers.— (Schindler.)
GiZ (3)—
A village with large gardens and enclosures, 3 miles north-east of
Damghan to left of the road to Shahrud.— (Schindler.)
GAZAFRUD—
A river in Gilan flowing into the Caspian between the villages of
Rud-i-Sar and Salmrud, on the road from Lahijan to ’Abbasabad.— (Holmes.)
GAZAN—
A small village of 60 houses in the Natanzrud division of Natanz on the
left of the road between Kashan and Isfahan, between Khaiidabad and
Natanz.— (Schindler, 1879.)
GAZANAK—
A village in Mazandaran, 3 miles from Rahna, on the road from Tehran
to Amul. It has about 50 houses.— (Napier.)
GAZ-GAZAREH—Kiev. 6,730'.
Stands in a cultivated valley below the north side of the Ramol pass
(Persian Kurdistan) on the Kandula-Sinneh road, 5 farsakhs from Sinandij.
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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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