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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [173v] (351/706)
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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334
KHW—KIL
KHWlJA ’ALl—(2)
A walled village, 3| miles from the Darvazeh-i-nau of Tehran, on the
road to Isfahan. There is good running water 100 yards beyond the village.
{Trotter.)
KHWlJA GHllS—Lat. 37° 32' 57"; Long. 47° 31' 0".
A village of about 60 houses, 21 miles from Mianeh on the road thence
to Tabriz. It lies on a little stream, which is there crossed by a one-arched
bridge and flows into the Sahrl Chal to the south. {Schindler.)
KHWAJA KARl—
A river in the district of Talish ^ mile south of Astara. It is fordable
in the dry season, the water being up to a horse’s girth, but is said to
contain a considerable volume of water after the melting of the snow in the
spring.— {Todd; Holmes.)
khwAjavand—
A branch of the great Lakk tribe who are dispersed all over Persia, but
principally inhabit the neighbourhood of Kazvin and the provinces cf
Pars and Mazandaran. The Khawajavand are nomadic and speak the
Kurdish language. They came orginally from Luristan and Ardalan.—
{Morier; Holmes.)
KlAR—
A mahal of the Isfahan province, situated south-west of Rar. Prin
cipal villages ; Kalatak, Surak, and Khairabad—(ScAmto.)
KlARUD—
A river of Gilan, which, rising in the north face of the Elburz, falls into
the Caspian near Rud-i-Sar, it is a considerable river in summer. It is
crossed here by a bridge, which is of so awkward a construction, and rises
I to so great a height in the centre, that loaded cattle can hardly climb it.
{Fraser ; Holmes.)
KlASHT PLAIN—Elev. 3,850'.
A broad plain of the Pish Kuh of Luristan in which rises the Madlan
river. It stretches some 8 miles in all directions and is bounded on all
; sides by hills. The Pusht-i-Kuh road from Khurramabad crosses it to
the bridge of Madlan Rud at its south-west corner. The elevation is not
’ sufficient to make it a good pasture ground in the summer, and it holds water
only in the Madlan stream and on the edges below the mountains, where only
are Lur camps. In spring and winter it is more thickly inhabited. The
plain lies within the territory of the Amrai Lurs.— {Burton.)
KIFRAUR or KIFRAYAR—(See Vol. III.)
KIKl—
A hamlet to the north of the road between Eishark and Tudashk en
route to Yazd from Isfahan.— {Abbott.)
KILAFl—
A place in Kurdistan on the road between Salmas and Sulaimanieh.—
(Plowden.)
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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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