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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [148v] (301/706)
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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284
K ALIB—K ALT
KAL-I-BALIN—*
A pass over tlie Zagros between Persia, Kurdistan, and Bibeli in Turkey.
It leads immediately from Baneh to Biandarreb. Thence to Zagros, winds
east of Sardasht and west of Sauj Bulagh and then to Sikineh. (Rich.)
KAL-I-DAUD—
Some hills bounding the plain of Sar-i-Pul in Qasr-i-Shirin district (q.v.).
— (Soane, 1911.)
KALIFAN KUH—
A pretty steep, high pass, passed two stages from Kazvln, on the road
to Shahrud. It is practicable for gum— (MacGregor.)
KAL-I-HUAN (ZUHAB)—
A narrow pass between the Huan range and the north end of Biznau,
affording an entrance from northern Bajtan to Sarkaleh. An important
tribal road.— (Soane, 1913.)
EALIP—
A ruined fort on a rocky precipice close to the pass of Gaduk over the El
burz mountains, on the road between Mazandaran and Tehran. ( Stuatt.)
KALlSA KANDI—Elev. 5,900'.
The chief village of Awajik in north-west Azarbavjan, situated on the
Trebizond-Tabriz high road, is the residence of the chief of the district.
The population is entirely Muhammadan, being peopled for the last
seventy years by Iranlu Turks. There is a good carriage road from here
to Kizil Dizeh, but that to Maku is difficult even for horsemen, and loaded
animals find trouble in squeezing round narrow pathways over the river.
Kalisa Kandi means the village of the church. The church is, if possible,
better worth a visit than that of Daniel. One of the inscriptions gives
the age of the older portion as 1,280 years. Only a small part of the old
structure now exists, a remnant in a dark stone, almost black, surmounted
by a quaint unadorned tower. The modern side was added by Shah
’Abbas. It is built in light grey stone, beautifully sculptured and decorat
ed. In front is a porch of Norman shape held up by massive pillars of the
darker stone. A white tower lends height to the church. The walls are
richly sculptured with pictures of saints and devils. (Picot, 1894.)
KALISHlN PASS— Elev. 10,568'.
A pass over the Shaikh Iva mountain of the Kurdistan range in Azar-
baljan, between Kuvandiz and Ushnu, it is closed by snow for five months
annually. Although now so difficult as to be hardly available for military
operations, it is probable that in ancient times this was the road between
Nineveh and Ecbatana.— (Todd ; Theilmann ; War Office.)
KALKALEH—
A village 44| miles from Burujird on the road thence to Isfahan.
KALTAPPEH (1)—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 2 miles south-west of ’Ajabshir.
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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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