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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [145r] (294/706)
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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KALEH
277
KALEH-I-KARAM—
A village 1| miles from Burujird, on the road to Daulatabad.—
(Schindler.)
KALEH-I-KAZIM—
A village miles from Burujird, on the road to Daulatabad-(5cAtn-
dler.)
KALEH I-KHALlFEH—
A village on the Kulan river 10 miles from Daulatabad, on the road thence
to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
KALEH-I-KHALILEH—
A mountain on the left of the road, going from Isfahan to Burujird near
Chaman-i-Sultan. — (Schindler.)
K ALEH-I-KHW A J A—
A ruined Armenian village in Faridan about 11 miles north-west of Khul-
gan.— (Schindler.)
For Khuigan see Volume III. ,
K ALEH-I-KHW A J A ’ALl—
A small mud fort, 5 miles south of Tehran, on the route to Isfahan.—
(W. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 260.)
KALEH-I-MIR—
A village 19 miles from Tehran on the Hamadan road.— (Schindler.)
KALEH-I-MUHAMMAD ‘ALl KHAN—
The third stage on the new road from Tehran to Qum, half way between
those two places. Close by is a village of Shahsavan Turks, the real Kaleh
Muhammad ‘AH Khan. There is only a post house at the stage.— (Schin
dler).
A village 44 miles from Tehran on the road to Qum. It is inhabited in
winter by thirty or forty families of the Yangijik branch of Inanlu Shah-
savans who reside near Zinjan during the summer. These Shahsavans
erect their tents in winter in the plain of Kushk-i-Nusrat and Hauz-i-Sultan.
— (Rabino, 1899.)
KALEH-I-NABl-BEG—
A river in Mazandaran, between Farahabad and Kara-Tappeh, flowing
into the Caspian.— (Holmes.) An arm of the Nika.— (Rabino).
ALEH-I-NADIR SHAH (1)—
A hill, in Kurdistan, 15 miles north-west of Sinneh.— (Gerard.)
KALEH-I-NADIR SHAH (2)—
A hill, 14 miles south of Sinneh, said to be hollow, but apparently only
containing a smallish cave.— (Gerard.)
KALEH-I-NAU (1)—
A small village in the Khar district, close to the road from Tehran to
Meshed, and 63 miles from the former.— (Schindler.)
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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