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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [172v] (349/706)
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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332 KixUSH—KHUSR
KHtSIL\BAD—
A treeless village of 10 houses, If miles to the left of the road from Daulat-
abad to Nihavand, and 8 f miles from the former.— {Schindler.)
KHUSHA KALEH—
A ruined village in the Dukhan district, on the northern slopes of the
Takke Kayasi, south-west of Nuvaran.— {Schindler.)
KHUSHAMANEH—
A village in Persian Kurdistan between Duvaizeh and Kalehju, near a
pass called Gardan-i-Khushamaneh, through which the Sinneh Sulaimanleh
road runs.— {T. C. Plowden.)
KHUSHKADAR—
A small village 19 miles from Burujird on the road to Qum, it is about
100 yards square; a few supplies obtainable. 16f miles from Burujird (to
west of Khushkadar) is a ridge 7,490'.— {Schindler.)
KHUSHNABAD—
A large straggling village, about 4 miles beyond Zareh, on the road from
Tehran to Hamadan 147 miles from Tehran.— {Schindler.)
KHUSKADUL—
A village of 30 houses of Kurds standing in a valley back from the Qishlaq
river, about 6 miles from Sinn< h. It has very fine groves of poplars and
willows and an abundant supply of water. The slopes round are well culti
vated.— {Burton.)
KHUSHK AND—
A village in the Khamseh district of Traq-i-’Ajami, one stage from
Sultanleh. It is a very pretty place, so embowered in wood and richly water
ed that it looks like an oasis after the surrounding country.— {Fowler.)
KHUSHKARUD—
A village, about 1 mile south of Rasht in (aWem.—{Schindler.)
KHUSHKARUD KtJH—
A range of hills between Akhura and Khulgan, on the Isfahan-Burujird
road. Its highest point is 8,420 feet.— {Schindler.)
KHUSH MAKAN or KHUSH MAQAM—
A village of eighty houses in Azarbaijan, about 158 miles from Kir-
manshah, on the road thence to Tabriz. It has an old mud fort out of
repair.— {Napier.)
KHUSH Y AN—
A village in Khamseh on the Zinjaneh Rud 4 miles below Zinjan.—
{Schindler).
KHUSRAU—
A small village 27 miles from Tehran on the road to Meshed.—(ScfoVid-
ler.)
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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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