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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎166v] (337/706)

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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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320
KHA—KHA
/
KHlRUI— Elev. 6,700'.
A village containing 50 houses, with 700 people, on the road from
Isfahan to Shushtar via Ardal 63f miles from the former. It is situated in
the Chahar Mahal district, on a small river, over which there is a bridge
near the village. Snow falls here in October and lies until April.
There are large flocks of sheep and goats ; wheat, barley and much
poppy is cultivated here, and the opium manufactured is valued at a
higher rate than that of Isfahan. 48,00 lbs. of grain are sold here yearly.
There is a bridge over the stream, rough and formed of logs on revet
ments of boulders, 200' long. Government taxes 900 tumdns per annum.—
{Stack; Bell; Schindler.)
KHARANAK— Elev. 5,450',
A place on the road to Biabanak from Yazd, 45 miles north of the latter.
It has eighty houses and an excellent caravansarai, good water-supply
but few supplies of other kinds. A range of mountains called Kuh-i-
Kharanak is said to commence here, and run in the direction of Ardakan
on the west. They are exceedingly steep and rugged, shutting out all
view on the northern side. Kharanak is called Kharuna on the map.—
{MacGregor.)
KHARBUZABAD.— See QARPUZABAD—
KHARCHANG—
21 miles south-east of Tehran. A walled village containing 40 houses.—
(Vaughan, 1891.)
KHAR-DASHT (or Yakain)—
A plateau in Azarbaijan, lying between Avoglu and Julfa on the Aras ;
it is about 16 miles long and 8 broad. Through it in the direction of
Marakand run the Zilbir and Kotur Chai rivers. The former, where it
is crossed by the Avoglu-Julfa road, flows in a broad bed, 120 yards wide
between low banks. In November the depth of water was 6 inches and
brea'dth 30'. The Zilbir Chai, where the road crosses it, 3 miles from
Avoglu, had a channel oTwater, 50 to 20 yards wide, 6 inches deep. The
banks were 20' high. The elevation of the watershed is 3,160' and from
here the road descends gradually to Julfa (14 miles) over stony barren
ground. Want of water and salt-impregnated soil renders the greater
part of the land barren. Between Avoglu on the south and Julfa, 29
miles, there is only one spring at 13 miles. This and the two rivers, both
near Avoglu, are the only water obtained on the road. No supplies are to
be had from the villages on the plain.— {Picot, November, 1894.)
KHARGAH—
15 miles east of Isfahan. A small village of about 20 houses situated
close to and on the left bank of the river. Water and supplies of all sorts
plentiful.— {Vaughan, 1890.)
KHARSANG—
A village 9| miles west of Isfahan (from the town gate) on the road to
Tirun-Karwan, at the beginning of a straight road which goes from there
.

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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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