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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [164v] (333/706)
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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316
KHAM-KHAN
KHAMlRUN—
A village in the Tirun Karvan district, about 7 miles from Yarpusht on
the Isfahan-Burujird road.— {Schindler.)
KHAMISHLU— . •
A village in the Faridan division of the Isfahan province, 16 miles from
Nimagird on the road to Burujird.— {Schindler.)
KHAMSEH (1)—
One of the districts of the old province of ’Iraq-i-’Ajami bounded north
and west by the Kizil Uzun, east by the district of Kazvin, and south by
Ardalan. The capital town is Zinjan.
The tribes inhabiting the district are Turks and Lakks ; they live in
houses in the winter, the cold being intense, but wander about in tents in
the summer. There are great numbers of sheep and donkeys in the dis
trict ; supplies plentiful.
The sub-districts of this district or province are as follows :—
1. Abhar Rud, with Abhar.
2. Dudungeh.
3. Khudabandehlu, with Sultanleh.
4. Sujasrud.
5. Suhrivard.
6 . Ijarud, west of Zinjan.
7. Kizil Gachlrud, on the Kizil Uzun.
8 . Anguran,
9. Uriad, on the Kizil Uzun.
10 . Gulabrud.
11. Bizinrud.
12. Qanibeglu.
13. Armoghan, north-west of Zinjan.
14. Tarum, north-east of Zinjan or Kizil Uzun.
15. Khuyunchai.
16. Garmab.
17. Zinjaneh Rud with Zinjan.— {Sheil; Schindler.)
KHAMSEH (2)—
A village 1| miles off the right of the Tehran-Qum road, about 6 miles
south of Shah ’Abdul ’Azim. 20 hours.— {Rabino, 1899.)
KHANABAD (1)—
A hamlet of Azarbaijan, 73 miles from Tabriz, on the caravan route to
Kirmanshah.— {Namier.)
KHANABAD (2)— Elev. 4,300'.
A village in Saveh. The second post station from Tehran on the road
to Hamadan. There is also a Persian Government Telegraph Office; 22
houses ; 54J miles from Tehran.— {Schindler.)
KHAN-AGHA—
A village of Azarbaijan on the eastern road between Gangan and ’Ajab-
shahr on the Tabriz-Kirmanshah caravan route.— {Napier.)
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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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