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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [163v] (331/706)
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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KHALA-KHALI
Minor. A part of them later on settled in Persia and in UM we “
them living in the district they now occupy near Saveh. P^ts ot tn
tribe reside in Pars, Kirman and AzarbaijaiL Tji?
spring from the same stock as the Ghilzai of Afghanistan, but t t
left Central Asia long before their Persian brethren and are mention
as living in Afghanistan as far back as the 10th century. —{Schindler.)
KHALAJABAD—
A village 1 mile west of Pik, 50 miles from Tehran.— (Schindler.^
KHALAJISTAN.— See SAVEH.
KHAL’AT PUSHAN- „
A building, where the ceremony of receiving the dress of honour (KhaU
rent by the Shah, is gone through, 4 miles from Rasht m Gilan. {Schindler.)
KHALAVAND—
A village in Azarbarjan, on the road from Bunab to Mianduab, and
miles from the former place.- {Schindler. )
KHALEHKAI—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzall {q-V-)-
KHALKEH-SARA—
A village on the Caspian in Gilan, about 50 miles from Rasht.
KHALIDABAD— Elev. 3,610'. (Sometimes pronounced Kiltabad.)
A large village of 200 houses 38 miles south-east of Kashan on the road
to Ardistan, under the Natanz administration. . ,
It has a post-house, earavansarai and mosque. This is really the second
cMfdrkMmh on the direct post-road from Kashan to Nam i ‘h e ™ad he
bifurcates, the left branch running south-east to Nam and the right south
to Isfahan. The stages from here to Nain are—
Mughar .. ’ 20 miles '
Ardistan
Jogand ..
Nayistanak
Nain
24|
20
24!
20
in tun . • • • nn
Water plentiful from a copious haunt stream. Sheep about 500. Crops
320,000 mans (Tabriz) of wheat and barley, and 8,000 mans o o ac .
{Schindler ; Vaughan.)
KHAL1SISSAR— Elev. 4,700'. , ,
A village in Kurdistan, near the Turkish frontier between Raiat and
Sauj Bulagh.— {Gerard.)
KHALlLULLAH— . ,
A villaae lying l mile to the north-west of the road from Kirmansha
to Kaudla’ at the foot of the north descent from the Kalm pass. Stan
on thfshe of a rocky spur above a dry ravine. Water from sprmgs,
some trees and cultivation. Grazing m spring , no fuel near,
of sheen and goats pastured in summer m the adjaceno mountain .
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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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