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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [141v] (287/706)
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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270 KAC—KAH
4
KACHRtlT)—
A river in Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian about 15 miles north
west of Amul. There is a village on it of the same name.— (Holmes.)
KADUN—
A village in lower Sllakhur, eight miles from Burujird, and on the left
bank of the Tahlj river.— (Schindler.)
KAFAK—
A village of 300 houses on the Riza Chal, in the Mazdakan district
about 100 miles from Tehran, to the left of the road to Hamadan— (Schind-
■ ler.)
KAFRAN—
Fifty-five miles from Isfahan on the road to Yazd. An imposing look
ing place from a distance, but mostly in ruins, three dangs (i.e. one-half)
belong to Agha Najafi, and three dangs (one-half) to the peasants. It has
30 pairs of oxen for the plough. There are 150 houses and a population
of 900, 40 kharwdrs (26,000 lbs.) of wheat and barley are sown yearly.
Taxes 600 tumdns. It is watered by the river, and in summer, by wells
also.— (Preece, 1892.)
KAFTEHRUD—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali.— (q-v.)
KAGHEH—
A small village in lower Silakhur, 16 miles from Burujird on the left of
the road to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
KAHAK—
A village in the Kuhistan sub-division of Qum, 2£ miles south of Varjam
with a population of over one thousand. Watered by the Bidhand rivers
and canals. It has a mosque, 2 baths, a small bazaar, and 35 gardens.
•— (Schindler.)
KAHDANEH— Elev. 4,950'.
A village on the plain of Shalnl, Persian Kurdistan. It stands on the
right bank of the stream about | mile north-west of the Sinneh-Juanrud road,
and contains 20 houses of Kurds. No trees. Water from the stream.
The valley round is cultivated and grassy.— (Burton.)
KAHIDAH—
A village on the left of the Sinneh-Kirmanshah road, about 32 miles
from the former. It is situated in an opening in the mountains.— (Webb.)
KAHLA—Also called ’ALA q. v.
KAHNC—
A village one mile west of Yazd.— (Kinneir ; Abbott.)
KAHRANGl—
Is situated in the plain Harsin (Kirmanshah) If miles east of that town,
the roads to Khurramabad dividing a short distance below the village.
To the north is a mound with the walls of a ruined fort on its summit.
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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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