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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [149r] (302/706)
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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KALTAPPEH (2)—
A small hilly district and range of hills, crossed by the Tehran-Hamadan
road between Kushkak and Nobaran, at an elevation of Q,870'.—(Schindler.)
KALUN—
A village 63 miles east of Tehran. It consists of many rows of houses
built on a rocky eminence, one above another, the one below forming a
terrace for that above it. It is remarkable for the fine honey produced
and the cattle are very fine. The women here wear cloaks made of
material much resembling Scotch plaids.— (Ouseley.)
KALYAYEH—
A high range of mountains in Kurdistan to the north of the road be
tween Barudar and Sinneh. The Saqqiz road leads across \t.—(Gerard.)
KALVAK—
A village in Mazandaran, 42 miles north-east by north of Tehran.—
(Beresford — Lovett.)
KAMALABAD—
A village in a large plain, 7 miles from Kara], on the road from Tehran
to Kazvin.— (Morier.)
KAMAND—
A village to the left of the road, on a hill, 5| miles’beyond Firuzkuh, on
the road from Tehran to Shahrud by that place.— (Napier.)
KAMAND-AB—
A stream passed on the Isfahan-Burujird road near Shangun, about 57
miles from Burujird. It rises in the Shutaran Kuh, leaves Shangun lying
on its left, and flows north-west into the Silakhur valley ; it then falls
into the Burujird, or Lahij stream' [also called Ab-i-Diz, (q.v.)] near the
large village of Bahrain, 31 miles from Burujird and thus forms the Ab-i-
Diz, which runs south towards Dizful and forms the boundary of Luristan.
This stream is again crossed on the same road at Darreh-i-Takht, 4| miles
from Shangun ; it is here 25 feet high wide and was 1 to 2 feet deep at the end
of July, and 6,370 feet above the sea.— (Schindler.)
KAMANGAK—
One of the twelve clans of the southern Kurds.— (Gerard.)
KAMABEH (1)—
A district to the north of Gulpaigan.
Two streams which afterwards become the Qum river flow through
this district, which is covered with corn and clover.
The plain is nearly a circle of 25 miles diameter, full of villages. The
district is purely agricultural, but some of the villages which abut on
those of the Sultanabad (’Iraq) district [weave carpets. Khumain is the
principal village of the district. The taxes of the district amount to 12,000
iumdns. — (Preece, 1893.)
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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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