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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [150r] (304/706)
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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KANA—KAND
287
KANAVAR— Elev. 4,250'.
A village 2| miles west of Tabriz in Azarbaijan, on the road to Diz-i-
Khalll.— {Gerard.)
KAND—
A river rising on the southern slopes of the Elburz range near the village
of Kand, some miles north-west of Tehran. It waters the Fashavleh district
of Tehran, and flows in a south-easterly direction north of the Kinarigird
hills, towards the depression east of these hills where it joins the Kara!.
— {Schindler.)
KAND—Lat. 35° 43'8"; Long. 52° 16'30" ; Elev. 4,960'.—(Lemm.)
A village a few miles (one stage) west-north-west of Tehran. It is described
as a really lovely village, surrounded by gardens and vineyards, and with a
rivulet which, issuing from a romantic glen, irrigates the gardens and flows
through the principal street. The houses are half-buried in the foliage of
walnut trees, mulberries, and weeping willows.—
KANDAB—
A place said to be one farsalch from Dehak, on a direct road thence to
Gulpaigan. It has three forts and numerous hovels.—{Jones.)
KAND ALAN (1)—
A village in Gllan, on the right bank of the Safid Rud and about 24 miles
from Rasht.— {Schindler.)
KAND ALAN (2)—
A v illage of 40 houses, miles to the left of the road from Hamadan to
Daulatabad-Malayar, 23^ miles from Hamadan.— {Schindler.)
KAND I (1)—
A village of Azarbaijan, passed about 6 miles north-east of Ardabi 1
on the road to Namin and Astara.— {Holmes.)
KAND I (2)—
A village of Talish close to Namin on the road from Ardabil to Astara.—
—(IT. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 226.)
KANDIL—Elev. 6,050'.
A spur of the Kurdistan range which is crossed on the road to Khalis-
eisar from Rayat to the plain of the Little Zab. The crest of this Kandil
spur forms the Turko-Persian Frontier.— {Gerard.)
KANDULA—
A large village of 500 houses of Kurds in the upper part of the valley
of same name : stands on both sides of a ravine running down from the
Kuh Parian m south-east direction, some 2 miles up which from Kandula
is the village of Parian. Large gardens and groves of trees line the ravines
above and for several miles below. The water-supply is large and good.
I here are many fruit trees of all kinds and large vineyards. The village owns
also a large area of cultivated land, and numbers of cattle, sheep and goats
. A ^hough really part of Bala-Darband, this village is under the direct
jurisdiction of Zahir-ul-Mulk Zanganeh. It is crown property, but the
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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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