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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎131r] (266/706)

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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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altogether successful existence. It is frequently closed for months at a
time, owing to the depredations of the Bakhtiaris and Kuhgalus. It is not
fit for carts and the scarcity of supplies along the road decreases its value
as a communication. In 1903 the total number of packages despatched
up and down this route was about 6,700. In 1906 the number had risen
to nearly 20,000.
ISFAHIAJS T AK—
A large village to the right of the road from Tehran to Hamadan, situ*
ated in a valley about 86 miles from the former.— {Taylor.)
ISFAHLAN—
A large vilFge in Azarbaqan, 2 miles south of Sardarfid and on the left
of the road from Tabriz to Maragheh. It pays a yearly revenue of 1,000
tumdns to Government.— {Schindler.)
ISFANDlBAD—
One of the 18 bvlTks of Kurdistan, formerly called Qalamro-i-’AlI Shukr.
It has 110 villages, of which only 3, Sirishabad, Qurveh, and Qaslan, have over
100 houses, is situated about 12 farsakhs east of Sinandij, and extends
southwards to the Hamadan territory. The population is about 20,000,
and it pays 71,204: krans taxes per annum. Its chief place is Qurveh (q.v.).
Until about 40 years ago it wrs Qaslan, which is now ruined. The Chahar-
dauli, a notorious tribe of robbers, reside in the buluk, and, as they are very
unruly and disorderly, the Governor has no peace and must keep continually
on the move, .and go from village to village. This is also partly due to the fact
that he has no offici 1 residence. The district is fertile and has a few trees.
Some grain is exported to Hamadan. There are a few mules in the villages,
but no c mels. A portion of the Zand tribe resided in this district in the
first h 4f of the 18th century.— {Schindler, 1902, 1910 ; Rabino, 1911.) A
large t ibuiaiy of the Kiziluzun known as the K chigird or Zalwarrud
cross' s the district, but offers no obstale, except at times of high flood—
{Napier.)
ISFANDU—
One of a group of villages immediately north-west of Khumain to the
left of the road to Sultanabad. Well cultivated.— {Preece, 1S93.)
ISFIJlN—
A village in Khamseh on the Zinjaneh Rud, about 10 miles below Zinjan.—
{Schindler.)
ISGU—
A village of Azarbaijan,near Bunab,onthe right of the road to Tabr'a.
{Gerard.)
ISHAQVAN (or ISSiKVAN) “Isaac.”'
A village of the Harsin district. It derives its ffame from an old branch
of the Lakk tribe—40 houses. On the read from Harsin to Garrabar 3
farsakhs from Harsin. The inhabitants are mostly ’All Ulahis.
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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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