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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎161r] (326/706)

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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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KASTCD—
A plain in Kurdistan between Hamadan and Sinneh in which Qurveh
(q.v.) is situated.— (Kinneir.)
KASUN—KISUN or KISUM. (See KISUM.)
KAUKAND—
A village in the Khamseh district on the banks of the Kizil TJzun river
above the village of Yenisard.— (Chesney.)
KAULEH—
A village in Kurdistan 10 farsakhs north of Sinandii (1902)
KAULT—
A tribe of Kirmanshah, despised as being unclean and filthy beyond power
of description. Its members are considered capable of any iniquity.
They appear to have little or no religion. Their marriages take place without
any special ceremony. They have no scruples about food or drink. They
wander all over the country and appear to resemble gipsies in their manners
and customs.— (T. C. Plowden.)
KAURA CHAI—
A river of Azarbaijan, tributary of the Jaghatu.
(War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 243.)
KAVAND—correctly KANVAND from Kan a mine: Lat. 36° 37' V Lorn?
48° 36' 30 Elev. 6263'.
A village in the Khamseh province, 18 miles west of Zinjan. A short
distance to the north of it is an old mine formerly worked for gold. No
auriferous earth is now left (1910).
KAVANDEH— Elev. 3,780'.
The first station on the new post-road from Kazvin to Tehran.—
ler.)
KAVlR—
“ Kavir ” consists of salt-impregnated desert. Its character varies
according to the amount of water in the soil; thus you may either have a
mere saline efflorescence on good firm clay, or a salt quagmire in which
a laden beast will founder if it strays off the track. Small pools of brackish
water are not uncommon. Sometimes there are a few tamarisk bushes, but
the general aspect of a kavir is utter barrenness unbroken by stone or weed.
The great Kavir or Salt Desert lies to the east aud extends almost to
the Qum district, Meshed and Tabas.—(£tac&.)
KAZANCHAl—
A river rising in the Elburz range. It crosses the Tehran road from
Flruzkuh at 6 miles from that place.—
KAZANGA—
A ford, 4 miles below Abbasabad, on the Upper Aras. The place is
very isolated and difficult of access. The ford is knee deep for horses in
summer, good bottom. There is a guard of 10 Cossacks here to prevent
smuggling.— {Picot, 1894.)

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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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