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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [120v] (245/706)
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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HIS—HOS
1911 .)
HISlEAK—Elev. 4,140'.
The second station on the new post-road from Tehran to Kazvin. The
name is a diminutive of Hisar. The village Hisar lies about \ mile to
the north-west.
HIS AR-I-AMIR—
It is crown property; the most southern village of the Jajrud valley ; it
has 100 houses and a hunting lodge of the Shah.
It is situated 22 miles east of Tehran, 3 miles north-east of Khatun-
abad, and is also called Hazar Kaleh.— (Schindler.)
HISAR-I-HAJI SHAMS ’ALT—
A village of 15 houses, 1£ miles south-east of Ramadan to the left of
the road to Malayar.
Same as Rozario’s Hassar.— (Schindler.)
HISHlJAN—
A place near Mianeh in Azarbaijan, a noted locality for the purchase
of pack animals, chiefly ponies.
HISHMATABAD—Elev. 5,683'.
A village about 40 miles from Burfljird on the road from Isfahan to
that place. It is situated on the Sdakhur plain, and was formerly called
“Asaraki; ’— (Schindler.)
HIV—Lat. 35° 59'; Long. 50° 37'. Elev. 4,775'.
A large village inhabited by Turks in the Sauj Bulagh district, 60 miles
west-north-west of Tehran, and 1\ miles from Yangi Imam (half way
between Tehran and Kazvin).
There are some coal mines situated about 1| miles from the village, at
an elevation of 1,000 feet above the plain. The rocks, where the mines
are, have a black tinge, and ironstone is abundant, and the hills seem to
consist of layers of sandstone, and coal.
A third of the coal consumed in Tehran comes from the Hiv mines.—
(Schindler.)
HOMIN (?)— , n T . .
A village, 35 miles from Ardakan, on the road to labas. It is situated
in a pretty little oasis.—(0. D. Stewart.)
HOSH-KURI—(or the ‘ horses house.”) Zuhab.
A small village situated near extensive Sassanian ruins, and inhabited by
Bajlans of the Shakali branch. They number 20 families, and are all
Saivids of the Husaini branch. The inhabitants are said to have come
over from Turkey some 12 years ago. The Kadkhudd is Saiyid Muhammad
Amin. Cultivation: grain. They also tend numerous flocks. The direct
road from Khaniqln to Chiah Surkh passes through this village. 50 inhabi
tants. Cultivation: wheat and barley daimi. (Postmaster, Sar-t-
Pul-i-Zuhab.) ■
A village in the Qasr-i.Shirin district of Kirmanshah on the frontier
between Turkey and Persia. It has a customs’ post and a guard of 6 Persian
horsemen, as it is a gate for the entry of smuggled goods into Gilan—(/Soane,
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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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