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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [150v] (305/706)
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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288
KAND—KANG
taxes have been remitted in exchange for the expenses of the military con
tingent furnished by Kandula. namely two companies to the Zanganeh
Regiment.
It is the residence of the Kandula branch of the Zanganeh tribe. Close
by is Bozarud, a Kaleh of Zahlr-ul-Mulk, numbering 50 houses. The eleva
tion of Bozarud is 1,611 *20 meters. The road from Kirmanshah to Kandula
passes the following places :—Tang-i-Kinisht, Tueh-Nazeh, Zaluab, Deh
Saiyid and Deh Kambar Khan.
The mountain behind the village rises steeply and contains good graz
ing in the spring : it is quite bare of trees.
Kandula is the property of the Zahlr-ul-Mulk of Kirmanshah and supplies
200 men to the Kurdish regiment under his command (1897).
The valley is crossed from south to north by the road from Kirman
shah to Sinneh ; and traversed from east to west by a road which, crossing
its
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
into Bilawar, joins the Kirmanshah-Bijar and Kirmanshah-
Sinneh main road.— [Burton; Rabino.)
KANDULA (Valley of)—
A cultivated valley about 35 miles by road north-north-east of Kirmanshah,
draining from west to east into the DInavar valley south-west of Linghur.
The water-supply is plentiful, the grazing good, and the valley itself entirely
under cultivation. The hills are bare of wood, but contain grass. The strea
draining the valley is from below the Kirmanshah-Kandula road thickly
lined with willows. Fruit of all kinds is very plentiful, especially in the upper
portion of the valley. There are many villages, the principal being Kandula
and Parian. The Zahlr-uJ-Mulk of Kirmanshah is the largest landed pro
prietor.— [Burton, 1897 .)
KANEH KAHA—
A village, 54 miles from Burujird, on the road thence to Isfahan.—
[Schindler.)
KANGARLU—
A tribe living in the Tehran province.
KANGARSHAH—
A stream of eastern Kirmanshah in which the town of Sunqur lies. The
Janisar from the west joins it between Sunqur and BIsitun at the Dinavar
defile whence they flow south-west.— [Napier.)
KANGARSHAH. Vide DINAVAR.
KANGARU—
A village of 20 houses in Kirmanshah, | mile to the left of the Tabriz-
Kirmanshah road, in a narrow defile, about 79 miles from the latter place.—
[Napier.)
KANGAVAR— Lat. 34° 29' 34 / ’'; Elev. 6,020'.
Chief place of the district of Kangavar; a small town of 1,800 houses,
situated on the road from Hamadan to Kirmanshah, about 44 miles from the
former and 57 from the latter town. In 1873 the population was reduced
from 2,500 to 1,000 by a severe famine.
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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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