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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎104v] (213/706)

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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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196
GILA— GILl
west of it have a number of trees over them. Its elevation is less than
3,800 feet; the height of the lower part of the Chila valley is about 3,000
feet. It is inhabited by a portion of the Khaledi, and Siah Kurds, 1,000 tents
under Daud Khan, i’hey possess a large number of horses, mules and cows
as well as the usual herds of sheep and goats. The climate in summer is very
hot. Kurdish is entirely spoken, Persian being almost unknown. In winter
the inhabitants move to Vijanan. There is no town of Gilan, a mound on
the plain marks the ruin of an ancient fort. Roads run from here to
Qasr-i-Shirln, Harunabad, Mandal 7 and Karind.— {Vaughan.) A fertile plain
south of Sar-i-pul-i-Zahab, on the border between Persia and Turkey. It
formed part of the territory under dispute in 1911-12.— -{Soane 1911.) See
also under Qasr-i-Shirin.
GlLAN (No. 3) vribe—
One of the thirteen clans of the Kalhur tribe of Kirmanshah, resident in
the neighbourhood of Gilan in Kirmanshah.— {Plowden.)
GILARD—
Vide Mazinak.
GlLAVAN—
A village of Azarbaijan situated on the left bank of the Kizil Uzin river
east of Zanjar and west of the Rndbar pass over the Masuleh mountains.
It is large and neat, situated in a small district called the Pusht-i-Kuh,
the inhabitants of which are for the most part Kurds of the Ambariu division
of the great Bebeh tribe. The only wood near it consists of fruit-trees, poplars,
and a kind of willow called by the natives “sinjid.”— {Rawlinson ; Fra
ser.)
GILDlSl—(Guldasteh?)
• A village 9 miles south-west of Tehran, lying south of the road to Kazvin.
— (Champain.)
GlLlARD—
A hamlet in the wide open valley of Damavand, 43 miles from Tehran
on the road to FIruzkuh. It lies below the crest of a plateau with culti
vation all round.— (Napier.)
GILlEH or GlLl—
A village between Khumain and Sultanabad in a small valley. Here
the road from Isfahan is difficult, but good enough for any caravan to
passover. At the end of the pass is a newly-built square buidling. Spring
and streams running close. The carpet weaving district here com
mences, Ziegler and Hotz having looms. A large salt lake, called Taramis,
lying in the same valley as Sultanabad comes in view.— {Coningham, 1869.)
Twenty miles from Sultanabad on the road to Khunsar, it belongs to
Saram-ud-Dauleh, the Zill-us-Sultan’s nephew, and contains 61 houses,
population 500; there are 1,000 sheep to be had here. In the village are
25 carpet looms. Its carpets are celebrated for their size and quality and
the, purity of the dyes used ; 52,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly, and there are
30 oxen. Taxes amount to 150 tumdns, in addition to 2,700 lbs. of grain
It has a good kanct. — {Preece, 1893.)

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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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