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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [118v] (241/706)
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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HAU—HAY
HAUZ-I-CHAHAR FARSAKH— Elev. 4,610'.
A place in Yazd having water, 12 miles short of Pusht-i-Badam, on the
road from Yazd to that place, in the direction of Blabanak.— (MacGregor ;
Gill)
HAU Z-I-DUGH—
A cistern of water, 28 miles from Kashan, on the road to Isfahan.
(Schindler, 1879.)
HAU Z-I-Gr AUR—
A halting place, with water, in Yazd, 56 miles on the road to Damghan
via, Jandak.— (MacGregor.)
HAUZ-I-JA’FAR or HAUZ-I-HAJl RAMZAN—
A place in Yazd with two good cisterns of water, 10 miles from Yazd,
towards Biabanak.— (MacGregor ; Gill.)
HAUZ-I-MIAN-I-TAQ—Elev. 3,055'.—(^es.)
A tank, from 18 to 21 miles from Khuranak on the road thence to
Biabanak, north of Yazd.— (MacGregor ; Gill.)
HAUZ-I-PANJ—
A halting place, with water, 17 miles south of Jandak, on the road from
Yazd.— (MacGregor.)
HAUZ-I-SULTAN— Elev. 2,904".
A halting place 50 miles south of Tehran, and 34 miles north of Qum.
The caravansarai here, which is very spacious, was originally built by Shah
’Abbas in the 17th century, was enlarged by the Sadr A’zam Amir-i-Nizam
and repaired by the Nizam-ul-Mulk in Nasir-ud-Din’s reign. The reservoir
is filled in spring from a stream which comes down from the hills on
the west.
Hauz-i-Sulta n used to be the second chd'par station on the road from
Tehran to Qum. Since the opening of the new road to Qum, the
cha'pdrkdneh has been closed, and the old road from Hauz-i-Sultan to
Qum, having become impassable on account of a lake to the south of it,
the caravansarai has been deserted.— (Schindler.)
HAUZ-I-TABARKU—
A halting place between Baik and Yazd, thirteen miles from Baik.—
(Sykes.)
HAYASHI—
A village in Azarbaljan on the right of the road from Ahar to Ardabll,
between Sauj Bulagh and Yangljah.— (Todd ; Holmes.)
HAVlR— Lat. 38° 6'. Long. 48° 56'.—(Si. John.)
A village and river in Gilan, 19 miles from Astara. The village is
situated about a mile from the sea, on the left bank of the river. The houses
are, as usual in this district, scattered through the forest, rendering it
impossible to calculate their probable number. The inhabitants cultivate
rice, keep bees, and make a pretty kind of matting of reeds. The common
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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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