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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [173r] (350/706)
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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KHU—KHW
333
KHUSRAUlBAD
A kr o f e village of Kurdistan, 116 miles north of Kirmanshah on the road to
Tabriz. It contains three hundred houses, and is watered by a stream flowing
east.— (W. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 242.)
KHUSRAUABAD (No. 2)— Elev. 5,000' (Wilson.)
Aviflage of 30 or 40 hovels, 12 miles south of Karind, Kirmanshah, toward
Hasanabad, chiefly inhabited by Karindi Kurds who are miserably poor.
It marks the limit between the territories of the Karindi and Kalhur tribes —
(T. C. Plowden.)
KKUSRAUlBAD (No. 3)—
A garden situated | mile south-east of Sinneh in Persian Kurdistan
It is a piece of ground 100 yards square, divided into smaller squares by
avenues of poplars with one grand centre avenue.— (Rich.)
KHUSRAU KUSH PASS— Elev. 8,100 / .
The point where the road from Kandula (Kirmanshah) crosses the moun
tain range bounding Sinneh to the east. The pass is a bare saddle sloping
steeply to the mountain ridge on either hand. The hills are bare of trees
of massive rounded outlines, and contain herbaceous plants and grass on
their northern sides. The ascent from the south-east commences from
above the village of Gaigayareh and the incline is long and gentle with
the exception of a short, steep and rocky ascent above the above-named
village. Ihe descent to the Sinneh side is steep and zigzagging over shaly
slopes to the valley which lies below the south-east side of the Bakhan
pass (which see). There is water below the pass at a short distance on
—(jLrtow 5 )’ graZmg g ° od ’ n ° fuel or su PP lies i Passable to laden animals.
khusraushAh—
A large village of 1,000 houses in Azarbaijan, about 17 miles south-west
ot iabriz. There is a caravansarai.—(iMmsow; Napier, W. O. Report on
Persia, Part II, Routes 242, 243.)
KHUTBEH SARA—Lat. 38° 1 '; Long. 48° 56'.
A stream in the district of Talish (Gilan), flowing into the Caspian. It is
6 miles from the village of Havir and is fordable in the dry season.—(Todd.)
Between Havir and Karganrud, said to be dangerous to ford on account of
quick-sands— (Holmes.)
KHWA.TA—
A village of Azarbaijan, 20 miles from
contains from 60 to 70 houses.—(tfoZmes.)
KHWAJA ’ALI—
Tabriz, on the road to Ahar.
It
A village 3j miles south of Tehran on the road to Isfahan
good running water by the village. The Kaleh-Khoja-’Ali
farther to the south.— (Trotter.)
There is
miles
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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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