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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [135r] (274/706)
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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JALALIS
257
JALALlS—
When Tahmuras Khan-ruled over Gurjistan, seven clans of Kurds
inhabited the country about Erivan and Nakjivan, numbering in all 16,000
tents, and called by the name of Jalall. When Shah ’Abbas took Gurjis
tan he settled the Jalalls at certain places on the frontier. The chief of
all the clans was a certain
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Khan Saiyid. One of the clans, the
Misri Kanlu, was established at or near Erivan, from whom is descended
the present chief of Maku. 178 years ago, in the time of Nadir Shah,
Mustafa Sultan was Governor of Maku ; he rebelled and was killed, and
Ahmad Shah, chief of the Misri Kanlu, was appointed in his place.
From him dates the history of the family which has continued to give chiefs
to Maku to the present day. The Maku Jalalis number some 920 tents
divided into seven clans. The following gives the tribe in detail :—-
(Murtazd Quit Khan.)
Clans.
Families or tents.
1. KhSna Kanlu ..
..
300
2. Birka Kanlu
..
150
3. Misrx Kanlu
..
100
4. Khundl Kanlu ..
..
..
20
5. Gin! Kanlu
..
•.
20
6. Kizil Bash Ogli
..
• •
250
7. Sakhanlix
..
••
80
Total
920
Like all Kurds they have both summer and winter quarters, migrating
from one neighbourhood to another as the seasons advance and the con
ditions of grazing change. The winter quarters of the tribe extend from
Tarim (Janin) Gaia, a village under Mount Agri Dagh (Ararat) and close
to the Turkish frontier—to Kizilwang, a village on the Aras, a few miles
east of ’Abbasabad. Between these areas they graze their sheep and cattle
and live, as a rule, in underground excavations lightly covered over with
brushwood and earth, sometimes occupying natural caverns, manv of which
exist in the volcanic region round about Mount Ararat. The summer grazing
lands extend all over the high plateau of Awajik and westward to Abagail
in Turkey. During the summer they live entirely in their nomad tents.
As a people, the Persian Jalalis form a small section of the large tribe of
that name found in the Bayazid and Abagaia districts of Turkey, with
C300GSB
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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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