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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [132r] (268/706)
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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ISMA’lLABAD (2)—
A village 6 miles from Tehran to the left of the road to Hamadan; | mile
from the village stands a caravansarai.— {Schindler.)
ISMliLlBAD (3)—
A village three hours’ march from Damghan, on the road to Tehran.—
(Bellew.)
ISMA’lL paighambar—
A village 92 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan.—(Tm/fon)
ISNAF—
A village of Malavar near Daulatabad, on the road to Bmujird.-—(£c/m*-
dler.)
IVA SHAIKH or SHAIKH IVA— (q.v.).
A mountain of Azarbaijan in the range which forms the western bound
ary of Persia. It is crossed by the Kaleh Sin pass (q. v.)~(Persia W 0
Pt. I.)
IVANDEH—
A ruined village in the Burbarud, 72 miles from Burujird on the road
to Isfahan.— {Schindler.)
’IZA RUD—
A river in Mazandaran, 5 miles west of ’Abbasabad. There is a fishery
of the Azad Mdhi-or Caspian salmon here.— {Holmes.)
’IZBANAK—
A village of 8 houses, on the Zaran Kuh, a couple of miles south of Azadtain
to the left of the Tehran-Hamadan road.— {Schindler.)
’IZABAD (1)—
A village, 17 miles west ofYazd. It is gradually undergoing the change
which other villages of this plain have experienced from sand drifts. On
its south side the gardens and houses have been buried for a space of above
100 yards in breadth, and to the height of 15 to 20 feet, in a sand of
finest grain. {Abbott.)
’IZABAD (2)—
A little village, situated in a small barren valley near the road from
Isfahan to Burujird between Hajiabad and Varpusht—(ScAmcfter.)
HZZATDEH, commonly known as ’IZDEH—Lat. 36° 37 / ; Long 52° 16' —
(Walker.)
A village in Mazandaran, 12 miles north-west of Amul. The village is
long and straggling, extending about 2 miles from one end to the other
along the shores of the Tzzatdeh river, which is here 70 yards broad and
crossed by a narrow wooden bridge. The houses are miserable huts, con
sisting of a single apartment and thatched with reeds or the leaves of
the sugarcane. They amount in all to 120, though the numerous sheds
and out-houses among them would suggest a large number. It pays a reve
nue of 1,000 tumdns.—(Holmes ; Fraser.)
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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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