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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [131v] (267/706)
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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250
ISH-ISM
Between Ishaqvan and the. village of Chaman Isma’il is a range of moun
tains crossed by a narrow ‘path, near which, on an abrupt cliff high up
m t le mountain and facing the village of Chaman Isma’il, are to be found
; three rock tombs. The one on the right and the oue on the left are un-
ornamented: The one in the centre is surmounted by a tablet, representing
a arge figure of a man with hands unlifted as in prayer, and three smaller
figures turned towards him. This is most probably an Elamitic sculpture.
There is no inscription. De Morgan calls these tombs the tombs of Deh
JNau, a village 1 farsahh distant; and believes them to be the tombs of some
petty tribe’s chiefs. On the opposite range of mountains on the other side of
the valley of Ishaqvan, )s a Farhad tar ash (so called from the legend of
Tarhad and Shinn) on the smoothed and polished surface of the rock,
which greatly resembles the one of Bisutun. In front of this place are two
alls, where the villagers have found Sassanian and Parthian coins —
{Rabino, 1907.)
ISHKZAR— The field of tears.
A village mostly half buried in sands, 10-11 miles north-west of Yazd.
It has a spacious mosque with a high dome.— (Schindler, 1910.)
ISHRATABAD—
A village with a mound and small fort, situated in a small uneven plain
about 75 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Y&zd.—(Abbott.)
ISHTAHlBAD—
A large village, 58 miles from Tehran, on the road to Ramadan.—(CW-
bell.) r
ISINDA or ESINDA—
A village in Mazandaran, 3| miles west of Sari,"situated among fields.
There is an Imdmzadeh shrine here.— (Napier.)
ISKANDARIEH—
A village in Azarbaijan. It is a small but prettily situated village, sur
rounded by a profusion of herbs and wild flowers, but chiefly remarkable
for the cave in its vicinity, about If miles north-east and 100 feet above it.
This ca've is approached by a steep ascent through a fissure in the moun-
, tain and about 25 to 30 yards wide. It consists of a room about 36 paces
square, which from the centre of the east side is of irregular form ; be
yond this the cave descends in a southerly direction to a considerable distance
and depth, but as the .mephitic vapour within immediately destroys animal
life, it is impossible to explore it.—(Owse%.)
ISKAZAD—
A fi ne village, 1 mile from Yazd, on the road to Kashan. It is surrounded
by gardens.— (Gibbons.)
ISMA’ILABAD (1)—Elev. 5,531'.
A village in the Kazvln district, 29 miles from Kazvln on the road thence
to Rasut. It lies on the Kharzan mountain and is also called Kharzau.
It has a large brick caravansarai; good accommodation can also be obtained
&v tne HcuUcliHdci s house.-— {SchiYidlcv
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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