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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [124r] (252/706)
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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IMAM—IMAR
235
'Gilrgiir, on a hill close by. It is not known who this Jamal-ud-Dln is.
Legend has it that he saved his father from being devoured by a dragon by
calling out just in time “ Gur Gur”, which in Turkish means “ look, look.”
The ground in the neighbourhood seems to be hollow and curious noises
come out of it. There are also some springs of bitter and brackish water.
A hundred paces from the hill is a little lake 200 paces in circumference
and, as measured by Mirza Ibrahim Khan Nizam-ud-Dauleh, 40 feet deep
(40 zar). The water is reddish. The lake all round it has a raised ridge
like a tank, (1902). This is probably a crater formation. Similar lakes
exist further north. (Schindler, 1910.)
IMAMZADEH HASHIM—Elev. 8,700'.—(Schindler.)
The highest point on the new road from Amul to Tehran, marking the sum
mit of the pass of the same name above the Harhaz river, on the southern
side of Mount Damavand, and 4 miles from Lake Damavand.— (Holmes ;
Napier.)
IMAMZADEH HASHIM (2)— Lat. 37° 2'. Long. 49° 38'. Elev. 479'.
A village in Gllan on the Rasht-Tehran road 20 miles south of former
town. It is situated on the left bank of Safid Rud and has good ground for
a camp in a pretty clearing.
IMAMZADEH JA’AFAR.—
A large village of 3,500 inhabitants in the Varamin district.— (Stahl.)
IMAMZADEH ISMA’lL— Lat. 32°34' 30". Long. 50° 31'. Elev. 7,060'.
A Bakhtlari village of 500 or 600 inhabitants, 84 miles from Gulpalgan,
on the road to Zardeh Kuh on the banks of the Zindeh Rud. The
valley is well cultivated and produces excellent cereals ; its pasture is very
fine ; the district is treeless and grows no shrubs.— (Bell, 1884.)
IMAMZADEH KURZON—
A miserable place of some hundred houses. No gardens, though wheat is
largely grown ; water plentiful; it is situated about 15 miles north-west of
Nihavand.— (McLachlan.)
IMAMZADEH SULTAN MUHAMMAD—
A place in Mazandaran, 7 miles from Barfarush, on the road to Astarabad.
— (Napier.)
IMAMZADEH VIRLAN.— See Vallan (1).
A village with mud houses in bad repair, 400 feet by 400 feet, on a
small stream on the road from Khurramabad to Burujird, it is about 12
miles south of Burujird.— (Bell, 1884.)
IMAM RIZA—
A place 3 miles from Tehran, towards Kazvin.— (Champain.)
HMARAT— Lat. 33° 52' 35". Long. 49° 33' 39". Elev. 6,440'.
A village of 100 houses, population 400, about 18 miles south-west of
Sultanabad on the Isfahan-Hamadan road. It has a deep clear and
rocky-margined pool of tepid water, with numerous springs bubbling up
all over its surface, and also pouring into it from a rocky granite hill. At
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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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