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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [129v] (263/706)
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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246
ISFAHAN
The cavalry force was 25 Persian Cossacks with two Officers, and some
thou sands of Bakhtiari horsemen, quite irregular and not always present
or willing to be used. Their arms are a mixture of ancient and modern rifles.
In 1913 no regular army existed in Ispahan.
The Swedish Gendarmerie was still in course of being raised in 1912,
and had not taken over the policing of the roads. In 1914 it is expected
that one battalion will be located at Isfahan.
The assessed taxes of Isfahan amount to 3,791,202 Terms cash, 8,855
kharwdrs of grain and 6,000 of straw or about
£ 100,000 altogether. The province is under the
Administration.
charge of a Governor-General and is divided into nineteen districts, viz.,
3 tavlbeh, each under a hakim of governor, 8 Mat Ml, each under a hakim, and
8 bulaks, each under a Kat Khudd. The names of these are as follows :—
(3 tavabeh).
1. Ardistan.
2. Qunusheh.
3. Abargii (Isfarjan).
(8 Mahdll).
1. Kuhpayeh.
2. Chahar Mahall.
3. Tehran-i-Karvan.
4. Faridr.n.
5. Yarguyeh.
6. Semiram (and Dehhaqan).
7. Najafabad.
8. Deh Haq.
(8 bulukdt).
1. Burkhar.
2. Quhab.
3. Marbin.
4. Rudashtain.
5. Yah
6. Karaj.
7. Baraan.
8. Banjan.
Communications.
Distances from Isfahan to other commercial centres .—The following are
the approximate distances in miles (by the shortest trade routes) between
Isfahan and other trading centres of importance
From Isfahan to— Miles.
Tehran
Kazvin
Rasht
Shiraz
Bushire
Ahwaz
260
300
422
276
460
260
During the year 1911 a Persian telephone service was established in the
town of Isfahan, and a wire carried as far as
Telephone* the village of Sehdeh, 16 miles and Najafabad,
about 20 miles west of Isfahan.
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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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