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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎120r] (244/706)

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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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HlMMATlBlD—(2).
Lat. 32° 3' 9". Long. 54° 8' 32" Elev 3952.
A village 17 miles from Yazd | a mile to the west of the road to Maibud
and Nam.
HlMUN—
A village in the Tirun-Karvan district, 6 miles north-west of Varpusht
to the left of the road from Isfahan to Buriijird.— {Schindler.)
HINDI KEB,AN—Lat. 37° 48': Long. 49° Y. — {St. John.)
A river in Talish (Gilan), flowing into the Caspian between Karganrud
and Kapurchal. It is a shallow stream in the winter, but in the spring
becomes a rapid torrent.— {Holmes.)
HINDI KHALEH—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali.— {q.v.)
HISAMABAD—
A village in the Kazvin district some 17 miles from Kazvin on the left of
the road to Rasht, 3 miles from Mazreh.
Its name used to be Shurjeh and was changed when the Hisam-us-Saltaneh
became its proprietor.— {Schindler.)
HIS.\R (No. 1)—
A village in Azarbaijan, on a branch of the Jaghatu river and 150 mil \s
south of Tabriz. It was once a considerable place, but now only consists of a
few families who live within the ruined enclosure of the fort. It is inhabited
by the TurkI tribe of Afshars.— {Rawlinson.)
HISAR (2)—
A large village, on the road from Burujird to Sultanabad, and about
36 miles from the former, on the slopes of the Kiih-i-Rastband. It reallv
consists of two villages, upper and lower; there are 700 houses, with a
population of 5,000, mostly settlers from Ears, 700 pair of oxen, 10,000
sheep, 1,95,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly, water plentiful from the river.
Supplies are procurable.— {Preece ; Jones.)
HISAR (3)—
A village in the Sauj Bulagh district, Tehran, to right of new post road
from Tehran to Kazvin about £ mile beyond second station Hisarak.
HISAR (4)—
Name of a place in Kurdistan two hours from Gulambar on the road to
Sulaimanieh in Turkey.
There are three good wells here; each is provided with a masonry
drinking trough: water 10 feet to 15 feet from surface.— {Bell ; Rich.)
HISAR (No. 5)—
A village, 2 miles south of Hamadan.— {Rozario.)
HISlRABAD—
A large village west of Flruzkuh.— {MacLachlan.)

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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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