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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [112v] (229/706)
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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212
HA3—HAM
HAJl SAIYID TAJ-UD-DlN—
A halting place in Azarbaijan, 10 miles from Khdi, on the road from
Tabriz.— (MacGregor.)
HAKIMABAD—
A village on the Kara] river south of Tehran and west of Kinarigird.—
(Schindler.)
HALABJIK—
A small village in Kurdistan, 5 miles south of Baneh, on the road to
Sulaimameh via Panjvin.— (Gerard.)
HALANlA—
A large Christian village in the Narochia district (Kurdistan), two days’
journey from Urumieh in Azarbaijan.— (Gerard.)
HALATEH —Elev. 5,380'.
A village of about 30 houses, a few miles north-west of Karind, on the
south slope of the same chain of hills ; some gardens and trees ; water in
abundance from streams. The place is inhabited by ’Ali-Illahis and is
about 2| miles north of the Kirmanshah-Baghdad road. Supplies ; sheep,
wheat and barley.— (Vaughan.)
HALAVI (more correctly ALAYl)—
A village between Varpusht and Dehak, on the road from Isfahan to
Kirmanshah.— (Jones.) •
HAL!—
A village in Azarbaijan on the left of the road between Tasuj and Khoi
— (Morier.)
HALlMlBAD—
A large village between Daulatabad and Kangavar, south of the
Helwind river.— (Floyer.)
HALUB RIVER—
Rising m the heart of the Banigas mountain it falls, after a short course
into the Zimkan river on the right bank some little way above Kaleh
Zangh\ Its gorge is conspicuous to the traveller on the ' Kaleh Zangir-
Gavarra road from the former as far as camp of Yarviz Sultan. (Burton.)
HALWAI—
i A villa g e of thirty houses, about 1 mile short of Bijar, on the Tabriz
Kirmanshah road.— (Napier.)
HAMADAN.—Elev. 6,155 feet. (District and Town).
A large town situated at the foot of Mount Alvand, some 180 miles
south-west of Tehran. The province of Hamadan is contiguous to the
governorships of As’adabad, Isfandabad, Garrus, Khamseh, Nubaran
(Khalaj), Iraq, Malayar and Tui-Sirkan.
Dense trees and cultivation mark the neighbourhood of Hamadan
which is prettily situated at the foot of the snow-covered Alvand
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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)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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