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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [152r] (308/706)
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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KARAB—KARAC
291
KARA BARAN—
A village in Azarbaijan, about 42 miles north-north east of Urumieh.—
{Gerard.)
KARABULAGH (1)—
A village 1 farsaJch from Sar-i-Pul-i-Zuhab, on the road, thence to Qasr-h
Shirin. It is also called Shaikh Saiyid from the name of its Katkhuda. It
is crown property. The villagers are said to have come from
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
some 100 years ago. They speak Persian and Arabic. Cultivation grain : and
rice. The river Kara-bulagh has its source at Kuchak-Barik, at farsaJch
from Sar-i-Pul-i-Zuhab. This river joins the Hulvan at this spot.—
(Rabino.)
KARABULAGH (3)—
A village in northern Azarbaijan, 12 mile's north-west of Zohrabad on the
road from Khoi to Kizil Dizeh.-— (Picot, 1S94.)
KARABULAGH (4)—
A village of 50 houses in Azarbaijan, about 15| miles from Julfa on the
road to Tabriz, lying a little off the road on the east.— {Picot, 1894.)
KARABULAGH (5)-
A village of 50 houses, about 145 miles from Kirmanshah, on the road
thence to T^hriz.— (Navier.)
KARA BULiVvyri
A vil’age in the Khudabandehlu sub-district of Khamseh, and north of
Sultanieh.— {Schindler.)
KARA BULAGH (7)—
A village, 34 miles from Kazvin on the road thence to Tabriz via Giris*
kin.— {Schindler .)
KARABUTEH—
A large village on the right bank of the Kizil Uzun, inhabited by Afshars.—
{Monteith.)
KARACHI! (1)—
A stream crossed by the road from Zuhab to Sulaimanieh at three hours
march from the former place.— {Rawlinson.)
KARACHI! (2)—
A stream of Azarbaijan, crossed 12 miles south of Bunab by the road to
Kirmanshah; at this point it flows in a wide bed. with perpendicular banks
10' to 12' high, and a gravelly bottom.— {Napier*}
KARACHI! (3H
See Karasu.
KARACHAMAN— Elev. 5,389 r .
^ A village m Azarbaijan on the Karachaman river, which flows into the
Shahri Chai, and 14 miles from Turkmanchai, to the left of the
thence to Tabriz.— {Lentz — Schindler.) *
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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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