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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [110r] (224/706)
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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GUSHEH (2)—
A village in upper Silaklmr, | mile west of Burajird on the Tahlj river.—
{Schindler.)
GUSHEH (3)—
A village in Lower Silaklmr, about 12 miles south-east of Burujird.—
{Schindler.)
GUSHAISH—
A village in the Murdi valley, Azarbaljan, 6 miles south-south-east of
Maragheh.— {Schindler.)
GUSHAKl—
A small village 10 miles from Burujird in the Burujird district, to the
left of the road from Burujird to Hamadan.— {Schindler.)
GUSHKARI—
A village, four miles from Khunsar on the road to Isfahan.— {Frecce,
1893.)
GUZAL—
The name means “beautiful” in Turkish ; it is a large village, situated
in a bay of the hills, 19 miles beyond Khumain towards Sultanabad.—
{Preece, 1893.)
GUZAZAR—
A village about 3 miles south of Sinneh on the main road to Kirmanshah
and on the left bank of the Shirvan river ; about 30 houses. Extensive
crops and cultivation, numerous plantations of willow and other trees, and
abundant supply of water.— {Vaughan.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
- Physical characteristics
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
- Title
- '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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- Open Government Licence