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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [144v] (293/706)
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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276
KALEH
KALEH-I-AR RASUL SALIF—
northern Kurdistan, 30 miles south-south-east of Sauj Bulagh
KALEH-I-AMRULLAH-KHAN—
isolated hill in the Ardalan district of Kurdistan, 7 miles south of
Sinneh. It is said to have a spring close to the summit.— {Gerard.)
KALEH-I-BIZARUD—Elev. 5,256'.
The name given to a house and gardens, the property of Zabir-ul-Mulk
of Kirmanshah (1897), which lie in Kandula valley 2 miles south-east of
Kandula. There are three separate gardens amounting to 30 acres. The
gardens are fringed and avenued with fine poplars, and contain many
sorts of fruit trees and a large acreage of vineyards. They are watered
by streams from Bizarud, and m addition have several springs within
their limits.— {Burton.)
KALEH-I-DAIR—
A halting-place in Kirmanshah 12 hours on the road fro m Sinneh to
Zuhab.— {Gerard.)
KALEH-I-DUKHTAR (1)—Elev. 10,500'.
A ruined dome of masonry situated on the top of a very steep hill of
slate rock, about 20 miles north of Tehran, between the villages of Ahar
and Sarak, and near the source of the Jaj river. It was probably some
kind of shrine. The absence of water anywhere precludes the idea that
it was a fortalice, which the country people affirm it to have been.
{Lovett.)
KALEH-I-DUKHTAR (2)—
A ruined castle on the summit of a rock on the right bank of the Kizil
Uzun river, Azarbaijan. It is near Mianeh on the road to Akhand.
Artaxerxes is said to have built it as a prison for a princess of the blood-royal
and ’Abbas the Great destroyed it because it served as a place of refuge for
robbers.— {Tancoigne .)
KALEH-I-FAIZABAD—
A small strongly-walled village, with a caravansarai; it lies 9 miles from
Qum, and is also called Karavansarai-i-Qallun Farash. It has a well
of brackish water just drinkable.—( W. 0. Report on Persia, Part II Route
260 .)
KALEH-I-HASILIN—
A village of fifty huts in Kurdistan, 9 miles west-south-west of Panjvin,
on the road to Sulaimanieh.— {Gerard.)
KALEH-I-HAT1M—
A village of 60 houses, 4| miles from Burujird on the road thence to
N aha vand.— {Schindler. )
ALEH-I-KAJ (?)—
A place in Kurdistan on the left of the Tibriz-Sinneh road, about 5 mile
north of the latter.— {Morier.)
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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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