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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [167r] (338/706)
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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KHAR—KHAT
321
to beyond Najafabad, 10 miles, bearing 94|°. Here a fine “ chaussee ”,
probably dating from the Saffavian monarchs, commences and goes
straight to Najafabad, a distance of about 7 miles.— {Schindler.)
KHARSARA—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 20 miles south-west of Tabriz.— {Schind
ler.)
kharzAIn—
A village of 40 houses, f mile to the right of the Tabriz-Kirmanshah
road at about 114 miles from the latter.— {Napier.)
KHARZAN— Elev. village 5,531'. Pass 6,522'.
A village of 20 houses, 32 miles from Kazvin, on the old road to Rashfc.
The road between this and Mazrah, a village 15 miles towards Kazvin, is
very difficult.— {Todd — Eastwick.)
KHASANLU—
A village in the Dekharqan district, Azarbaijan, 2 miles north of Gugan.
— {Schindler.)
KHASAWAN—
A hamlet in Azarbaijan, 24 miles south-east of Tabriz, on the road to
Kirmanshah.— {W. 0. Report, Persia, Part II, Route 242.)
KHASBAKH—
A village in Gilan, about 2 miles south of Rasht.— {Schindler.)
KHASHAREH—
A walled village surrounded by cultivation, about 59 miles from Isfahan
on the road to Shiraz by Abadeh.
It has a chdpdrTcdneh. — {Taylor — Clerk — Trotter.)
KHASRAN—
A village in Mazandaran, about 24 miles south-east of Tehran.— {Bellew.)
KHATREHABAD— Elev. 5,000'.
A village of western Kirmanshah, 9 miles south-east of Karind, on the
road to Harunabad.— {Gerard.)
KHATUNABAD (1)—
A large village of the Afshar district, which is connected with the Tab
riz-Kirmanshah road by another which joins the first at a point about
5 miles north of Sain Kaleh.— {Napier.)
KHATUNABAD (2)—
A village of 80 houses, 18 miles from the Meshed gate of Tehran and
nearly 20 miles from the centre of that town, on the road to Meshed. The
village, which is Government property since Haji Mirza Akasi’s grand
vazirate under Muhammad Shah, has a large caravansarai with 40 rooms
built by Haji Mulla ’All one of the Tehran’s Mujtahids and an abundant
water-supply It has no chaparkhaneh now. This was removed some 14
years ago to Kabut-i-Gumbaz, situated some miles to the north-east,-*-
— {Schindler.)
C300GSB
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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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