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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [112r] (228/706)
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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HAJIA—HAJIR
211
HAJI AMIR—
A hamlet in Talish on the road between Namln and Astara, about 12
miles from the former.— {Holmes.)
HAJIAQA— Lat 37° 50' 24". Long. 46° 50'. Elev. 5,670'.
A large village in -Azarbaljan, with a chaparkhaneh, 62| miles from
Mianeh on the road thence to Tabriz. Water ^lentii\il--{Lemon—Schind
ler.)
HAJl-BABA—
i A hamlet of 15 houses, 4 miles from Tikan Tappeh (Kurdistan), on the
road thence to Kirmanshah.— {Napier.)
HAJl-BAZAR—
A large village, with orchards, in Azarbaijan, on the left of the road
between Mlanduab and Binab.— {Gerard.)
HAJl GAH—
A stream, watering the valley of Zebiri, in the province of Kirman
shah and crossed by the road from Baghdad to that town, at about 10
miles short of Mahidasht.— {Jones.)
JTAJlJ (Aveoman Lihun)—
To the east of the district of Avroman Lihun there is a village named
Hajij in a very picturesque but rugged spot. There is here the tomb of
Imamzadeh Sultan Obaidullah, brother of Imam Riza, and known as
Kusseh-Hajij. The inhabitants of this village wear special clothes and
head-gear resembling a crown, are held in great respect, and were always
exempt from tolls and customs. Beyond the mountain on the side of
which is this village, and on the path leading to Sinneh, is a river running
down a ravine said to be 40 zars deep. Over this ravine a small suspended
bridge made of vine trees has been thrown, across which the villagers
carry travellers and donkeys.”— {Rabino.)
HAJl KHARABEH.— Elev. 6,020'.
A village with twenty-five houses, 17| miles from Hamadan, on the road
to Tehran.— {Schindler.)
HAJl KURD—
A village in Azarbaijan, 2| miles west of Maragheh.— {Schindler.)
HAJILAR— Elev. 2,850'.
A village in Azarbaijan situated at the commencement of the Kara 5
ziadan plain about half way to Marakand.— {Picot, 1894.)
A village in the district west of the Bamu mountain, belonging to Shaikh
Nasr-ud-din Yalebani. About 300 inhabitants of various tribes. Cultiva
tion, wheat, barely, cotton, rice, vegetables and ground fruit.— {Soane,
1912),
HAJl RUSTAM— Lat. 38° 13' 0", Long. 48° 56' John.)
A river in Gilan flowing into the Caspian between Astara and Hawr.
It is a clear shallow stream, about 20 yards broad, with a sandbank at the
mouth.— {Holmes.)
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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