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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [171r] (346/706)
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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KHt)R—KHORA
329
are reads from it to Samnan, Birjand,[Sabzavar, Nishapur, Tabas, Yazd and
On the 14th May the thermometer stood at 112° in a honse ; this is owing
to the radiation of heat from the hills round it. Snow, however, sometimes
falb here in consequence of its elevation. About 20 lafilm from Isfahan
and Yazd pass through annually on their way to Damghan via Turud across
the kamr. It is said that last year (1889) eight Mfilas laden wiih Russian
sugar came by this route ma Astrabad and Shahrud, their ultimate desti
nation being Yazd A small duty levied in kind is taken from all caravans
passing through ; (MacGregor ; Vaughan.)
KHUR (2)—
A village miles north of Yang! Imam, half-way between Tehran and
Kazvin. Mosque with blue dome there. Elevation ±$20'—(Schindler.)
KHURA—
A village of Kuhai Kurds, 80 houses, a mile above Balisht in valley of
that name m Kirmanshah. It is terraced on the hillside 200 feet above
the stream draining the valley; below and round are many gardens and
vineyards hned with poplars and fruit tiees.-(Burton )
KHURABAD (1)—
A village near Tehran.—(Schindler.)
KHORAbAD (2)—Vol. Ill, page 392.
A village 17 miles from Taft, south-west of Yazd.—(Pm*- 1892.)
KHURABAD (3) also KHORREHABAD and KHURAHABAD )—
A village of 10 families in the Vazkarud district of Qum situated 11
miles south-west of Qum and 1 mile north-east of Tm or SaluV
It has extensive fields and gardens. There are 4 hamlets—Jandab Jur’
n q ad_and 2 hel ° ngm « to this viUage.-(&ife“)
KHURASANLU—
n - ame jl a smal I J fibe of Kurds, which occupies a tract of land north
of Salmas. It is an offshoot of the Hasananlu (q.v.). The name of the tribe
i- ^^d from the place of its origin, which is the mountain above Khara-
san a village in the Aras valley west of Erivan.
The tribe is said to have moved from Russian territory to escape punish-
ment for its many oifences against order. Its land does not extemfto the
Turkish frontier.— (Soane, 1910.) d t0 the
KHURASGAN—Lat. 32° 39' 20"; Long. 51° 38' 4".
A large village belonging to peasant proprietors, partly in ruins 41 mile*
east of Isfahan on the road to Yazd. It is watered by L, te and iamlsfrom
the river and has sufficient to cover eighty javhs (20 acres) in twentv-foS
Th” village^o™ 2 0M ’ 0 ° ntamin | 2,000 houses. Population 20,000.
ine village owns 2,000 jar bs of ground, and has thirty mazra’ehs (Wound
under cultivation without houses) dependent on it. Taxes 40,000
annum. The population is almost entirely employed in agriculture Thp
~.“lynt'T ° f COtto “’ Calkd laSan
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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