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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [122r] (248/706)
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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HUSAINABlD
231
HUSAINAbAD (2)—
A large village, distinguished by two conical towers over the tomb of
a saint, to the right of the road from Tehran to Meshed, 63 miles from
the former. It belongs to the Khar district.— (Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (3)—
A village 71f miles from KazvTn on the post-road to Tabriz.— (Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (4)—
A village 9 miles east of Damghan, to the right of the road to Shahrhd.
— (Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (5)—
A village 5 miles south of Damghan on the road to Frat.—(Nc/AndZer.)
HUSAINABAD (6)—
A village 17 miles from Damghan, on the road between Tehran and
Khaf in Khorasan — (Stewart.)
HUSAINABAD (7)—
A village of 40 houses in the Hazar Darreh district to the right of the
Tehran-Hamadan road, 6 miles from Khanabad.— (Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (8)—
A village 9f miles from Kazvin, to the right of the road thence to Rasht,
— (Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (9)—
A village, 21 miles east of Isfahan.— (Preece.)
HUSAINABAD (10)—
A village 12| miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan.— (Schin
dler.)
HUSAINABAD (11)—
A walled village with gardens, 13 miles from Tehran oji the road to
Isfahan.— (Trotter.)
HUSAINAbAD (No. 12)—Lat 32° 31' 52 ,/ Long 53° 30' 32' Elev. 4,308.'
A small village in the province of Yazd, 75 miles from Yazd, 11 miles from
Agda. It was founded by Husain Khan an adjutant of Muhammad Shah.
The water here is undrinkable. A few tufangchis are stationed there.—
(1910.)
HUSAINABAD (13)—Lat. 36° 8'. Long. 50° 10'.
A village 80 miles from Tehran on the road to Kazvin— (Champain.)
HUSAINABAD (14)
A buluk of Kurdistan north of Sinandij. It has 40 villages and a small
population of Shafai Sunnis paying annual taxes amounting to 12,960
krdns. The climate is cold. Rivas (rhubarb of edible variety) and karch
(mushrooms) are plentiful. For list of villages in the district see Rabino’s
“Report on Kurdistan, 1911.” — (Schindler, 1902.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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