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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎117v] (239/706)

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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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222
HASANF—HASANR
HASAN FALAK—
A high mountain north-west of Isfahan, between Kokah and Khumain
on the road to Daulatabad.— (Floyer.)
HASANIKDIK—
A small village, 5 stages north of Tehran, on the road intoMazandaran
by the Gachisar Kotal. It is situated on the Lora river, which comes
down from the Kotal, and which is crossed here by a bridge of poles thrown
across. The village has a shrine, lately renewed.— {Lovett.)
HASANI—■
A largish village of 400 houses, population 1,500, situated about 30 miles
to the north-west of Isfahan on the road to Khunsar. The place is divided
into 2 parishes ; it owns 2 Jcandts. It is owned by peasant proprietors;
there is a good deal of cultivation and numerous vineyards. Karbdz and
gilims are woven by the women — (Preece.)
HASAN KHAN—
A ruined fort in Kurdistan used as a caravansarai i 5 or 6 miles from
Sinneh towards K irmanshah.—( Taylor .)
of Khudafarin, where there is
{Telegraph Department.)
HASAN KHlN LtJ—
A village on the Russian frontier east
a Persian Government telegraph office.-
Distances along the frontier—
Altan, facing the Russian village of the same name, to Bahram Tapeh
which is opposite the Persian village of Hasan Khan Lu 15 Versts.
Hasan Khan Lu to BUeh Savar .. *• ..54 Versts.
BIleh Savar to Azadlu .. .. .. • • 62 Versts.
Azadlu to Aruz .. .. .. “ -‘21 Versts.
Aruz to Daman .. . • • • • • «. 60 \ ersts.
Daman to Kelves or Khelves .. .. • • 37 Versts.
Kelves to Astara *. .. ‘*75 Versts.
Total distance from Hasan Khan Lu to Astara .. 309 Versts.
At Hasan Khdn Lu there are sheep and cattle, and a little corn is grown.
The frontier from Hasan Khan Lu to Daman is the country of smugglers
of tea and sugar from Persia to Russia. Labourers pass the frontier
here in great numbers every year, entering Russia for the harvest season,
and returning the same way to Persia. They thus evade the necessity
of having passports.— {Rabino.) ^ .
HASAN NAN—
A village of 20 houses in the Samnan district, 53 miles east of Samnan
town, on the road to Tabas via Dasgirdun.— {Stewart.)
HASANRUD—
Twenty-one miles from Kashan, on the road to Sultanabad. The village
which contains 100 houses, population 450, belongs to peasant proprietors
and is under the Kashan government; 510 tumdns are paid as taxes. There
are two kandts; 10,400 lbs. of grain are sown yearly.— {Preece, 1893.)

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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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