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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [153r] (310/706)
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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KARAD-KABAG.
293
metal. It is not surprising that this portion of the country should be rich
in minerals, as it is really a portion of the mountainous country of the Cauca
sus, which is covered with mineral deposits. Unfortunately, both the coal
and iron are said to contain quantities of sulphur.” In the present state
(1891) of Azarbaijan when the chief transport is by means of ponies, camels
and donkeys, it is difficult, if not impossible, to develop the mineral re
sources of the country. Russia, in 1912, was negotiating fora railway line
between Julfa and Tabriz, and it is well known that she intends to obtain a
mining concession for the Kara Dagh minerals. In parts of the Kara Dagh
fuel in the form of mountain wood is sufficiently abundant, but westward
along the Aras, and in the mountainous district of the north-west from Mount
Agri Dagh to Kotur, and on the south the country is devoid of tree life.
(Picot, 1894.)
KARADAl—
A village of 40 houses in the Pishkhur district, to the right of the road
from Tehran to Hamadan, 135 miles from Tehran. (Schindler.)
KARA DEH—
A ruined village between Mirik and Zarreh, on the road from Tehran
to Hamadan.—(IF. 0. Report on Perisa, Part II, Route 255.)
KARADEH—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 153 miles from Tabriz on the road to As-
tara.
KARAFAH—
A large village in Azarbaijan, 51 miles north-north-east of Urumieh
— (Gerard.)
KARAFTU—
A huluh of Kurdistan about 18 farsakhs north of Sinandij and near Saqqiz,
of which it was formerly a sub-district. It has 12 villages and a population of
2,000. There is an ofd castle in this district with chambers and passages
cut in the rocks and great caves. No one knows the history of this castle.
See.Rabino’s “Report on Kurdistan.” 1911.
Riza Quli Khan Vali explored it for 2 days but did not see the whole of
it. His uncle Mahmud Khan got lost, and could only be found after a long
search. In some chambers ancient smithies were found, and pieces of
rust-eaten iron 10 zars long and half a zar broad, also many pieces of cloth
ing and stuffs. (1902). The mountain with the Karaftu grottoes, since
Sir Robert Ker Porter visited and described them, (plan and description
in vol. 2, pages 538-552, of his travels, London, 1821) has been marked on
many maps approximately as in lat. 36 25' and long 46 3 45 but does not
appear in maps recently published.— (Schindler, 1910.)
KARAGATAH—
A range of hills passed some 30 miles from Tehran, near the road, thence
to Firuzkuh.— (Napier). Vide Kara Agach.
KARAGHAL—
A village in the Dehkharqan district, Azarbaijan, 2 miles north of Gogan.
(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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