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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [145v] (295/706)
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
KALEH-I-NAU (2)—
A village to the west of Kinarigird, on the Kara] stream, about 22 miles
from Tehran.
KALEH-I-NAU (3)—
A village in Silakhur, 9| miles from Buriijird.— (Schindler.)
KALEH PAYAN—
A village in Mazandaran, 8 miles from Ashraf, on the road to Astrabad.
It lies hidden among the trees to the south of the road.— (Holmes.)
KALEH-I-QAZl—
The name of a conical hill in the Chalavar range : seen on the left of the
Akhura valley, near Khoigan, on the road from Isfahan to Burujird.—
(Schindler.)
KALEH-I-SAFDAR—
A village about 17 miles from Qum, on the road to Saveh—
KALEH SAIYID—
A village near Kahrizak on the road from Tehran to Qum. 20 hours.—•
(Rabino, 1899.)
KALEH-I-SAR-I-AB—
A small village, 17 miles east of Isfahan.— (Preece, 1892.)
KALEH-I-SHAH-GUZAR—
A small building in Kirmanshah an hour’s march from Qasr-i-Shirin,
towards Sar-i-Pul-i-Zohab, on the Khaniqln-Kirmanshah road. This marks
one of the halting-places of the Shah on the occasion of his visit to
Karbala.— (T. C. Plowden.)
K ALEH-I-SH AN I—
A village 8| miles from Burujird on the road to Qum.
KALEH-I-TAHAR MlRZA—
Some ruins on an island in the Safidrud between Rudbar and Rushan-
abad.— (Schmdler.)
KALEH-I-TARASH—
A fort in north-west Kurdistan on a rocky peak 500 or 600 feet above the
road, 2 miles north-east of Baneh.— (Gerard.)
KALEH-I- Y AZDIJIRD or BANZARDEH, or LARDEH—
A fortress in Kirmanshah immediately overhanging the town of Zuhab.
This is the stronghold of Hulwun, to which Yazdijird, the last of the
Sassanian kings, retreated after the capture of Ctesiphon by the Arabs,
and it is a noble specimen of the labour which the monarchs of those ages
bestowed upon their royal buildings. It is formed by a shoulder project
ing west from the mountain of Dalahugird upon three sides by an inac
cessible scarp, and defended upon the other, where alone it admits of at
tack, by a wall and dry ditch of colossal dimensions, drawn right across
from one scarp to the other, a distance of above 2 miles; the wall is now
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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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