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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎158v] (321/706)

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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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KARI—KARK
It contains about 30 bouses inhabited by Bilawari Kurds, and has trees,
crops and cultivation. It is watered by a stream. Supplies : 300 sheep
and goats; good grazing in summer.— (Vaughan.)
KARIZKHANEH—
A village, 11| miles north-west of Varpusht in the Tirun-Karvan district,
a mile to the left of the road from Isfahan to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
KARKAN—
A large village with many gardens on the Ab-i-Kulan, 6 miles north
west of Daulatabad Malayar.— (Schivdler.)
KARKACHAT—
A place in Azarbaijan, 16 miles from Aslanduz, on the road to Tabriz.
(Morier.)
KARKAN—
A large village with many gardens on the Ab-i-Kulan, 6 miles north
west of Daulatabad-i-Malayar.— (Schindler.)
KARKHEH—
A river of Persia, which rises in three branches, all springing consi
derably east of Kirmanshah. The first and most inconsiderable rises
about 25 miles west of Hamadan, the second has its source in three springs
on the side of Mount Alvand 6 or 8 miles south of that place. The latter
runs south-westward till it meets the former in the plain of Maran, about
10 miles south-west of Kangavar ; and at a spot nearly 10 miles south of that
place it is joined by the third, or chief branch of the Karkheh, which comes
from the Girun mountains by a north-west course of about 40 miles.
The trunk of the three united streams, under the name of Gamasiab
river (of which the second above-mentioned may, from its northern and
central position, be considered as the main branch) winds for nearly 30
miles in a general westerly direction on to Bisitun, chiefly along the Girun
mountains. At this celebrated spot the Gamasiab receives the Ab-i-
Dinavar coming from the north, and again, after a course of about 12 miles
nearly south-west, another stream, called the Kam Su, passing through
Kirmanshah at about 20 miles north-north-west of that place. The direc
tion of the main trunk is nearly south, until it receives, at a few miles
from thence, a tributary coming from the Guran mountains by a westerly
course, and passing by the tomb of Baba Buzurg continues flowing in a
southerly direction through Luristan and Khuzistan till it joins the Karim
river, but this part of its course is outside the country treated of in this
section, and will be found in “ Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III
kArkhAneh—
Pronounced Kardna, a village in lower STlakhur, about 7 miles south
of Burujird and on the left bank of the Tahij nvex—(Schindler.)
KARKUNAN—
A huge cleft in a hill, near the Dizak plain of the Chahar Mahal district,
the design having been to let the Kurand water through to join the Zindeh
Rud, and deliver Isfahan for ever from the danger of famine. The nam e

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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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