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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [146v] (297/706)
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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280 KALEH
village, i. e., they are not nomad. Kaleh Jug is an hour’s journey in a south
east direction from the caravan track, between Sinneh and Sulaimanieh, the
nearest point on tl.at being between the halting places of Shaikh Attar and
Barudar.
KALEH JUG (2)—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 2f miles south-west of Maku, a
summer residence of the chief.— (Picot, 1894.)
KALEH-I-KAL-YA’QUB—
A pass in Kurdistan, about an hour’s march beyond the Gardan-i-Khusha-
maneh (?) on the Sinneh-Sulaimanleh road. It is not far from Janavara.
The ascent is easy, but the descent is very steep and rough.— (T. C. Plow-
den.)
KALEH KAN—Elev. 6,250'.
Peaks in Kurdistan, in the neighbourhood of Sinneh.— (Gerard.)
KALEH KHAVAN KUH—
Some hills three miles south-east of Nahavand.— (Schindler.)
KALEH KHUSHLA—
A small fort in Kirmanshah, 5 miles north-east of Khaniqln.—
(Gerard.)
KALEH KOYA (?)—
A village situated in a valley three marches from Sinneh Kurdistan,
towards Sulaimameh.— (Rich.)
KALEH KUA—
A village in Persian Kurdistan, situated about 55 miles north-north-west
of Sinneh. It is a large village with a good deal of cultivation. The
climate here in summer, is delightfully cool, but the winter is severe. It
is the district of Hubatu. The stream, which takes its name from this
village, flows into the Kapura river about a mile from the village of the
latter name.— (Rich ; Gerard.)
KALEH KUH ARABS—
About a hundred families, speaking Turkish, who have charge of the
Shah’s camels. They are very robust and strong (Schindler.)
KALEH KUNAR—
A village in Kirmanshah about 13 miles north-west of the city of that
name and on the road up the Kara Su valley to Juanrud and Ruvansar.
It contains from 15 to 20 houses inhabited by Kurds. Has no trees. Water
from wells. Animals water at the Kara Su, distant about 1 mile north.
Some crops and cultivation. Good grazing. Firewood scarce. Supplies
60 cows, 200 sheep and goats.— (Vaughan.)
KALEH KUSHI—
A river in Talish, an affluent of the Astara river. It rises in the
mountain of Shindan, and is said to mark the line of frontier between Rus
sia and Persia from its source to its junction with the Astara river.— (Todd.)
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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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