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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [142v] (289/706)
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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372
KAI—KAL
KAINlLtf—
A village of 20 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, about 9 miles north
of Khoi and 1 mile east of the Karaziadin road.— (Picot, 1894.)
KAINUR—
Two villages in north-western Azarbaijan, 25| milesjfrom Khoi on the road
to Kizil-Dizeh, and lying about 2 miles north~of the road.—(P^, 1894 )
KAISANA—
A bazaar in Tabriz, Azarbaijan.— {Gerard.)
KAISUY0N—
A village in Kirmanshah in the Bilavar valley and about 32 miles north
of Kirmanshah city. It contains about 20 houses inhabited by Bilavar
Kurds, Shrahs ; has some plantations of trees and cultivation ; water
rrom a stream ; good grazing.
KAJAVEH-SHIKAN—
A pass leading from the Kirmanshah plain to that of Sahna on the road
to Hamadan.— {Taylor.)
KAKANKUP—
A village in Kurdistan 22| miles from Sinneh on the road to Kirman
shah. It lies at the end of a village ; 1 mile in length and is separated
by a small river from the foot of a range of mountains.—(l. D., W.O.)
KAKAWAND—
A tribe of 1,000 families settled in the province of Kazvin on the Zinjan
border. It is divided into two branches, the chief of the .first being Masih
Khan Rashid-us-Sultan son of As’ad Khan and of the second Namdar Khan
Sarhang. {Robino ) 1909.)
KAKLISTAN—
A place 16 miles from Kirmanshah, on the road to Sinneh, Kurdistan.
{ It is one of 23 or 30 hamlets, averaging from 10 to 30 houses apiece,
which are scattered over the plain known as Mahal-i-Zir-i-Darband, and
i which is watered by the Ab-i-Razavar.
On the range of mountains facing Kaklistan, on the west, is the tomb of
Wais Nazar, one of the companions of Muhammad. It is.a place of great
sanctity and of frequent pilgrimage among the Sunni Kurds.—(P/owden.)
KAKO zakariah—
A village and stream in Persian Kurdistan, the former situated in a
valley between Duvaizeh and Kaleh Ju or Janavara. The stream fails
into the Diala.— {Rich ; T. C. Ploivden.)
KALABCHAI—
A stream in Azarbaijan flowing into the Lake of Urumieh—on the east
side, about 58 miles south of Tabriz {vide Chawan).—( dfm'er.)
KALACHUALA—
A village of western Kurdistan on the route from Baneh to Sulaima*
nieh, 10 hours from the former.—(£erard.)
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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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