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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [138r] (280/706)
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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country round is grassy, and undulating, and to the west rise the high peaks
of the Saraban mountain and the Banigas range, 10 miles distant the
country between being clothed with thick forests of dwarf oak. Water
is abundant and the numerous channels show a large area of ground for
merly under cultivation. The town now (1897) is deserted and in ruins
having been recently raided and burnt by Habibullah Khan of the Jaf
Kurds. It formerly contained 100 houses in addition to the residence of the
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
of Juanrud, the principal landowner, and the Governor’s bouse. There
was also a small bazar and some shops. The inhabitants are slowly re
turning, the Governor, Sharaf -ul-Mulk of Sinneh having been dismissed and
Navab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan, son of Mushir-ud-Divan of Sioneh, appointed in his place.
The feud with the Jafs is at an end.
There is room for camping. Wood, water and grass are abundant.
Some supplies are obtainable from villages a few miles off in the direction
of Kirmanshah, and when the town is rebuilt should be plentiful.
The climate is hot for three months of the summer, but very pleasant
in spring and autumn, and the soil appears most fertile. Roads to Kir
manshah, the Zimkan river, and Pavah pass through the town.
The people fled with their flocks and herds to the Zarneh mountain.
They are tenants of the
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
of Javanrud, the chief landowner of the
district.
See also Rabino’s “Report on Kurdistan, 1911” (Burton 1897
Schindler, 1902.)
JAZEH—
A large village partly in ruins, 12| miles beyond Fashark north of the
road from Isfahan to Yazd.— (Abbott.)
JAZEH AND TIREH— j
Two villages in the Kuhistan district of Qum, each with about 50
houses high up in the hills, close to Furdu.— (Schindler.)
JAZR—
A village in Kirmanshah, north of and adjoining the Bilavar valley,
north of Kirmanshah city. It contains about 20 houses and is inhabited
by Bilavarl Kurds. Trees, crops and cultivation. Water from a stream.
Good grazing in summer.— (Vaughan.)
JIB—
A round caravansarai, 24 miles north of Dang, on the road from Qum
to Saz'abad. It is situated at the entrance of the hills after leaving the
plain of Dang.— (Jukes.)
JlBABAD—
A village to the left of the Tehran-Hamadan road, 144 miles from Teh
ran.— (Schindler.)
JIBDAR—
A village, 5 miles south-west of Daulatabad llAnym—(Schindler)
JIGHARA—
A village in Azarbaijan, about 8 or 9 miles north-west of Ardabil, on
the road from Ahar,— (Holmes.)
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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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