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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [171v] (347/706)
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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330
KHURH-KHURR
KHURHEH or KHURHEDEH—
A village of 150 houses in the Mahallat province, 48 miles north-east by
north of Gulpaigan, it is beautifully situated in a lovely glen amongst
orchards. It is watered by a river and two kanati. It has a mosque,
two baths and some saints’ graves. It is Government property. In the
neighbourhood are some ruins attributed to the Sassanian king
Khurramshah .—{Schindler ; Stack,)
KHURIAN—
A small village, 8 miles south of Samnan, near which traces of naptha
have been found.— {Schindler.)
KHURKHURE H—
A stream crossed between Surmusi and Kara Bukhara, Kurdistan, on
the road from Sinneh to Sulaimanieh. This is the name also of one of
the sixteen districts of Kurdistan. {Plowden.)
A river between the village of Tomar Beg and ;Saqqiz. It is crossed by the
Sinneh-Saqqiz road. It has a wide gravelly bed, and is easily fordable in the
summer, but presents some difficulty, though never quite impassable in the
spring.— {Gough, 1905.)
It flows through the Khurkhureh huluk and rises in the Kuh-i-Chahal
Chameh east of the Yhaghatu river, which it joins after a run of ten farsakhs,
—{1902.)
KHURKHUREH (Village.)—
A village of the district of Khurkhureh, Fifty houses. It is on the side
of a mountain known by the same name. Down the mountain a stream
rushes with great noise, which sound is reproduced in the onomatopoeic
name of the neighbouring village Khurkhureh.
The village is 2 jarsakhs distant from Vashendarreh, a village not far from
the Turko-Persian frontier. From Khurkhureh to Keilu in Saral it is 4
farsakhs ; the road passes at 2 farsakhs the village of Surmusi.
In September 1912 the Turks proposed to build a tower here on account
of Zanganeh raids.— {Rabino, 1907.)
KHURKHUREH (District)—
One of the 18 bwZffifo of Kurdistan, north-west "of Sinandij. A few years
ago it had 90 villages, now there are only 50. The population, all Sunni, is
about 10,000, and the yearly taxes amount to 6,900 krdns. —(1902.)
KHURMAZARD—
A large village in Azarbaijan, 12| miles north of Maragheh.— {W. 0,
Report on Persia, Part II, Route 247.)
KHURMAZEH—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 4f miles north-west of Maragheh.— {Schind
ler.)
KHURRAMABAD (No. 1)—
A village on the northern slopes of the Mushtavar Dagh, a few miles south-?
yrest of Nuvaran. It belongs to the Hamadan province.— {Schindler.)
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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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