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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [153v] (311/706)
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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KARAG—KARAJ
KARAGHAM—
A sub-district of Saveli (q.v.)
KARAGUL (1)—See QURIKUL.
KARAGUL (2)—
A village in the Khamseh district 33 miles west-south-west of Zinjan,
on the right bank of the Kizil Uzun. It is a considerable village situated
on the rise of the plain as it begins to stretch up to the hills— (Rawlinson.)
3 ARAGUZLU (The black-eyed)—
A large Turkish tribe residing in the fertile district extending from
Hamadan in a north-east direction for 30 miles. Mahmud Khan with the
title Nasr-ul-Mulk, who was many years ago Persian envoy at Paris,
Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1885, and Governor General of Khorasan
up to October 1887, was a chief of this tribe, which is about 5,000 families
strong. A branch of the tribe is settled in Pars.
The present (1900) leading chief is the Hisam-ul-Mulk who resides at
Shavarin.
Lat. 35° 47' 43"— Lemm. Long. 50° 59'—St. John. Elev. 4,250' —
Schindler.)
KARAJ—
A fine village of 60 houses situated at the mouth of a gorge in the moun
tains, whence issues the Karaj stream, 26 miles from Tehran on the road
to Kazvln ; its gardens are well stocked with fruit-trees, and the surrounding
district produces barley, wheat, lentils and cotton, and there are plenty
of partridges, wild sheep, hares, and antelopes in the vicinity.
It is also called Sulaimanieh (q.v.) since Path ’AH Shah built a palace
or shooting box there with the money, which his son Muhammad ’AH Mirza,
Governor of Kirmanshah, had taken from Sulaiman
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Governor of
Baghdad. There is some coal not far from (Holmes—Eastwich—
Lovett — Schindler.)
KARAJ RIVER—
Its head waters are on the western slopes of the Kasil Kuh, near Shah-
ristanak about 20 miles north of Tehran. It is crossed by an old three-
arched bridge, 26 miles from Tehran on the road thence to Kazvin, near
the Sulaimanieh village. Elevation Kara) Bridge 4,290'. It is also
crossed at 16| miles by a similar bridge on the Tehran-Hamadan road.
Its waters are drained off into different canals for irrigating the plains
west and south of Tehran ; east of Kinarigird on the Isfahan road it loses
itself in the Kavir.— (Schindler.)
KARAJ (1)—
A river rising in the Paridan division of the Isfahan province, on the
northern slopes of the Kuh-i-Parsisht. Is crossed near Zarneh, on the road
from Isfahan to Burujird, at an elevation of 8,020 feet, whence it flows
towards Gulpalgan.— (Schindler.)
KARAJ (2)—
A group of villages 21 miles from Nihavand on the road to Kirmanshah;
water from a kandt, 30 houses, 260 people : 600 sheep and 24 pair of plough
oxen,— (Preece.)
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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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