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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [115r] (234/706)
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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village. A remarkable though inferior kind of carpet is made in the dis
trict.— (bykes.)
HANZA—
/ ^ v ^ lage m tile sub-division of the province of Yazd —
\Mac-(jregor.)
haeamabad—
A village of 80 houses. 2f miles from Daulatabad Malavar on the road
tiieuce to Nihavand. It lies on the left bank of the Ab-i-Kulan, which is
eie crossed by a bridge of 5 wooden arches on six stone piers The
river was about 30 feet wide and had 1| to 2 feet of depth in April 1877 In
autumn it is mostly dry.— {Schindler.)
HAKAND—
Is a large village in the Kuhpa division of the Isfahan province, situated
not quite 50 miles east of Isfahan and a few miles south of Kuhpa. The
1910 & ) C ^ aWay ' The Village has a P°P ula tion of quite 3,000 {Schindler,
HAEAT— ' ' '
(sthindhr) ° n ^ Kara;i riVer S0Uth ° f Tehran and east of Kanarigird.—
HARAU—
A town m Azarbmjan, the capital of the district of Khalkhal, 60 miles
ldabl 50 mlleS east of Mi aneh. Fraser calls it Herow.—
HARAVAL DAGH—Elev. OjOGO'.
A mountain lying to the west of Dilman in Azarbaijan. It may be
the same as the Mount Akronal of Monteith’s maps.— {Sheil)
HARAZJAN—
A .^lage of 50 families, mostly Saiyids, in the Jasb valley of the Qum
province.— {ScMndler.) v
HARDANK—
A village in the upper Linjan district between Pul-i-Vargum and
Chimmi about 20 miles from the former .—{Banna)
HARDARUD—
A stream in Mazandaran, a tributary of the Harhaz river from the east.
!? e Harliaz at 11 miles from Parasp, and is in size about one-
third of the mam river.— {Napier.)
HARHAZ—
KiM, nTnrm which rises on the eastern slopes of the Kasil
h (12,000 feet) about 2o miles north of Tehran, flows in an easterly
irection through the Ear Plateau, where it is known as the Lar river and
takes up several small affluents, turns to north-east near Ask at foot of
Damavand, then leaves that mountain to the left, and flows due north
en ermg the Caspian near Amul after a course of perhaps 100 miles In
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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