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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [122v] (249/706)
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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HUSAINA—HUSAINI
HUSAINlBlD (15)—
A village in the Damghan district, 1 mile east-south-east of Frat and
19 miles south of Damghan.—(<ScAind7er.)
HUSAINABAD (16)—
A village of lo houses to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan road 4 miles
from Khanabad.— {Schindler.)
HUSAINABAD (17)
A hamlet of 12 houses of Kurds, situated on the Shaml plain, Persian
Kurdistan, on the road from Sinneh to Juanrud. It stands on the side of a
bare mound on the left bank of the Sham! stream. Below it runs a road
to Palangan from Kamlaran. No trees: the valley round is cultivated:
water from the Shaini stream : good grazing round.— {Burton.)
HUSAINABAD (18)—
A village 2 miles to the right of the road from Tehran to Shahrud via
Firuzkuh, and some 45 miles from Tehran.— {Napier.)
HUSAINABAD (19)
A.village in Kirmanshah about 32 miles nort-west of Kirmanshah
city. It contains about 10 houses inhabited by Jafs. It has no trees.
It is situated near the left bank of the Kara Su and has crops and culti
vation. Water plentiful from a stream, good grazing, firewood scarce ;
supplies : 20 cows, 100 sheep and goats.—(Faw^Aaw.)
husainAn—
A place on the northern side of the Great “Kavir”, or salt desert of
Persia, towards Damghan. The Kavir is terminated on this side by a
chain of low but very steep hills, which can only be crossed by zigzag paths
in single file. This path is said to have been discovered by a camel herd,
who followed the track of a badger amongst the rocks. This is probably
the same place as Hasanan {q. v.). — {Stack.) J
HUSAINI (1)—
A village about 73 miles from Damghan on the road to Yazd through
the Kavir. Water here. Few supplies.—(MacG^or.)
HUSAINI (2)—
A large village with a fine-looking but ruined caravansarai, about 50
miles north-west of Isfahan, on the road to Dehak.—(,F%er.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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