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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [106v] (217/706)
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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GULA—GULI
GULlB—
A village on the road from Isfahan to Burujird 12 miles from Yarpusht
towards the north-west.— {Schindler.)
GUL ’ABBASABAD—
A village, 10 miles from Kashan on the road to Sultanabad.—(Preec#;
1893.)
GULAHEK or-GULHEK correctly; QULHAK Lat. 35° 46'.—(Si. John.)
Elev. 4,800'.* 4,620'.— (Schindler.)
A village 6 miles north of Tehran; it forms the summer quarters of the
British Legation, and is situated just where the hills begin to rise from
the dreary plain below ; 700 feet above Tehran. It is connected with
the capital by a fair gravel road, ascending the slope of the Shimram
The road is bordered with poplars, and a small stream runs on either
side. '
The English Legation lies ensconced in the loveliest gardens with elms,
walnuts and pleasant running water about it. The Russian Legation
occupies Zargandeh at a short distance. Muhammad Shah presented
the village to the British Minister about 30 years ago, and the inhabi-
tmts in consequence enjoy a security to person and property unknown
elsewhere in the country.— (Ussher; Bellew; Lovett; MacGregor; Stack.)
GULANEH?—
A village in the province of Persian Kurdistan, about 8 miles from
the source of the Kizil Uzun. It is a frontier village between the dis
trict of Hasanabad and Kara Torow (?)— (Rich.)
GULABAGHl—
A Kurdish tribe partly residing in the Hubatu huliik of Kurdistan.—
(Schindler, 1910.)
GULDASTEH—
A village with the grave of an Imamzadeh, 10 miles from Tehran, to the
right of the road to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
GULEARAJ—
A village in AzarbaJjan. situated on a high plateau overlooking Julfa
on the Aras.— (Picot, 1894.)
GULGULABAD—(QULAQA ?)
A vill ge in the Hamadan district on the road from Hamadan to Tehran,
about 140 miles from the latter.— (Taylor.)
GULHARUN—
A village on the Qaiz plateau, 4 miles north of Kurd-i-Bala, and to
the right of the road from Isfahan to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
GUL-I-BAHAR—
A range of hills, just north of the Safid Kuh. It bounds the Burbarud
plateau on the south, half-way between Isfahan and Burujird.— (Schind
ler.)
* Stack says 4,500
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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