'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [116v] (237/706)
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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HASANABAD
HASANABAD (1)— Lat. 36° 34' 48". Long. 51° 56' 0".—(Caspian
Survey.)
A village in Mazandaran on the shore of the Caspian, 15 miles east of
’Aliabad.— (Pushchin ; Walker.)
HASANABAD (2)—
A village of 15 houses to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan road 4 miles
from Khanabad.— (Schindler.)
HASANABAD (3)—
A village in the Damghan district, 1 mile east-south-east of Frat and
19 miles south of Damghan.— (Schindler.)
HASANABAD (4)—
A small village, 21 miles from Khumain on the road to Sultanabad.—
(Preece, 1893.)
HASANABAD (5)—
A village 30 miles from Qum.— (Abbott.)
HASANABAD (6)— Lat. 36° 18'. Long. 50° 13'.
A village in ’Iraq-i-’Ajami, 11 miles east of Kazvln. The soil around it
is good, and the land in a state of excellent cultivation.— (Ouseley.)
HASANABAD (7)—
A village 6 miles west of Isfahan.— (Stack.)
HASAN ABAD(8)—
A village of sixty houses, 26f miles by road from Tehran, second post
stage on the new road from Tehran to Qum. The Karaj river is passed
about two miles north of Hasanabad by a bridge of one arch with a 45-foot
span.— (Schindler.)
HASANABAD (9)—
A village on the eastern slopes of the Kiih-i-Kumasun (q.v.) to the left
of the road from Isfahan to Bumikd.—(Schindler.)
HASANABAD (10)—
A village 13 miles from Varpusht towards the north-west, a couple of
miles to the left of the road from Isfahan to Burujird.—(ScAwwfe)
HASANABAD (11)—
A village in lower Sdakhur 7| miles from Burujird and on the right bank
of the Tahij river.— (Schindler.)
HASANABAD (12)—
A buluk of Kurdistan south of Sinandij. A poor district with a
population of about 7,000 Sunnis. It is intersected by the Qishlaq and Gav-
rud rivers. Its hills are covered with oak and ash \ partridge and moun
tain goat abound good; tobacco is grown. (1902.)
HASANABAD (13)— Elev. 5,600'.
A village lying 3^ miles south-east of Smneh in a narrow valley draining
east of Qishlaq river. It is surrounded by vineyards and gardens and
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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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