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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎111v] (227/706)

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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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HAJIAB—HAJI’AL
HAJllBlD (2)-
A village of 20 houses in Kurdistan, 2| miles from Tikantappeh (q. v.)
on the road thence to Kirmanshah.— (Napier.)
HAJIABAD (3)—
A small village in the Damghan district, 8 miles from Damghan to
the right of the road to Tehran.— (Schindler.)
HAJIABAD (4)—
A village 7 miles south of Da ghan on the load to Ymt—(Schindler.)
HAJIABAD (5)—
A village 75 miles east of Isfahan.— (Abbott.)
HAJIABAD (6)—
A village 56| miles from Burujird to the left of the road thence to
Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
HAJIABAD (7)—
A village of 10 houses in the district of Biabanak belonging to Samnan,
it is situated south of the Kuh-i-Surkh, and north of the Slah Kuh. Water
and supplies scanty.— (MacGregor.)
HAJIABAD (8)—
A village situated on the Jaj-rud, north of the Shamran range, and
about 14 miles north of Tehran.— (Lovett.)
HAJIABAD (9)—
A treeless village, 3 miles north-west of Dauiatabad Malayar.— (Schind
ler.)
HAJIABAD (10)— Elev. 4,470/
A village, the property of Zahir-ul-Mulk of Kirmanshah. It stands on
the road to Khurramabad via Harsln 2 miles from the point of its diver
gence from the main road. Kirmanshah is 15 miles to the west. There
is abundant water from kar'z streams and springs. To the north a culti
vated plain stretches to the main road \ mile distant; beyond is the Para5
mountain: about 3 miles to its lower s 1 o,ies. There are some groves of
willows and fine poplars. Five miles north-east is the rock of Bisitun ;
60 houses.
Boom for camping in the vicinity. Supplies from th : s and several ad
jacent villages. There is good grazing : wood from the Parao mountain :
3| miles to the east in the Gamaslab river. To the south, at distance of
| mile, runs a long bare spur with rocky peaks emerging from its ridge.
The village gives its name to the adjacent plain, which contains five or
six villages, the property of Zahir-ul-Mulk.—(.Bwrhw, 1903.)
HAJIABAD (11)—
A village of about 60 houses, about 19 miles north-west of Yazd.—
HAjI ’ALT KHAN—
A village of a hundred houses in Azarbaijan, about 13 miles east of
Sauj Bulagh.— (Gerard.)

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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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