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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎99v] (203/706)

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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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GHI—GIL
GHTISEH
A village in the Khudabandehlfi _ sub-district of Khamseh.— (Schindler.)
GHlUNB iND—
A village in Azarbaijan near Borinj, north of the road from Tabriz to
Ahar. It has some 20 houses and is 13 miles east of Tabriz.— (Holmes).
GHIUNDANGHl—
A village in Azarbaijan, a few miles east of Ahar. It is prettily-
situated among a few trees in a cleft of the mountain on the right bank of a
small stream and contains about 20 houses. Alum is found in its neighbour
hood.— (Holmes.)
GHOR—Local pronunciation of Khafr.
A village situatedkibout 3 miles north-east of Natanz. It is described as a
most delightful place standing on rising ground, giving it the appearance
of a fortress from a distance ; around it is an extensive plain.— (Lebrun.)
GHUMDASHT or SHUNDASHT—
A village in Mazandaran, 7| miles from Rahna, on the road from Tehran
, to Amul. It is situated high above the right bank of the Harhaz river.—
(Napier.)
GHULAM—
A village in Ardalan, 28 miles from Sinneh on the road to Hamadan.—
(Kinneir.)
GHUSHIH— See Qusheh.
GIOZEH—See Azmir.
A tribe of Kurds numbering 2000 families who have their encampments
in the province of Kazvin along the road to Rasht. Their chiefs belonged
to the family of Ghias-i-Nizan, but they were all killed by the Nationalists
during the march on Kazvin. (Rabino, 1909).
GIJVANtJ—
A village 35 miles from Burujird, on the Kamand-ab river and to the
left of the road to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
GlLAK—
A caravansarai in Azarbaijan, 48f miles from Mlaneh on the road thence
to Tabriz. It was built by a merchant of Gilan, hence its name (Gilak
being adjective form of Gilan).— (Schindler.)
GlLAN— Lat. 36° to 38° 30'. Long. 48° 30' to 50° 15'.
A province of Persia, bounded on the north by the Caspian and the Rus
sian province of Talish, east by Mazandaran, south by Khamseh and
Azarbaijan, and west by Azarbaijan. Its length is about 150 miles, and
its breadth varies from 20 miles to 50 miles. Its area in square miles is
4,673.
The province is divided into the low, unhealthy, jungle-clad plains, which
t skirt the Caspian and the lofty hills to the south of the province.

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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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