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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [187r] (378/706)
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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KIS—KIZ
361
The unit of length is the zar shdhi, which is about 1 metre 3| centimetres, or about
40 inches.
2 bars
. =1 gireh.
4 gireh
. — 1 charak.
4 charak
. = 1 zar.
1 farsakh is
A maiddn is
equal nominally to 6,000 zar shdhi.
a quarter of a farsakh.
Juft is the superficies ploughed by a pair of oxen. This is an undetermined measure,
which varies according to the nature of the land.
Gardens and ground in town are sold by the zar, gardens sometimes by the jarib=l,000
square zars.
Coinage.—
20 shdhls .. .. - •• •• •• =1 hran.
\0 lerans .. .. •• •• •• ••• =1 tumdn.
The £ T. gold is sold in the bazaars at from 60 to 52£ krlns. The Turkish Consulate
reckon the 1£ T. for passport purposes at 55 krans.
For “ Communications ” see under Kirmanshah (province), except Posts
and Telegraphs, which are in this article under the heading “ administration. ”
Authorities.— Bell ; Mann ; Preece, 1899 ; Curzon ; Whigham, 1902 ; Cesari,
1904 ; Rabino, 1907 ; Intelligence Summaries.)
For further details s°e Rabino’s “Gazetteer of Kirmanshah,” from which
most of the above article was extracted.
KISB—
A village of 60 houses on the Nanaj river, a couple of miles below Nanaj
and to the right of the road from Hamadan to Daulatabad Malayar.'—
(Schindler.)
KISHMISH TAPPER—
An Armenian village in north-western Azarbaijan. About 8 miles north
west of Maku.— (Picot, 1894.)
KISHYA—
A small village in Talish (Gilan), some few miles west of Astara, and on
the Astara River. It consists of about half a dozen huts.— (Holmes.)
KlSUM—
A village in Gilan, on the right bank of the Safid Rud, east of Rasht
and about 12 miles west of Sangarud.—(tfoZmes.)
kiyar—
A village in Khamseh on the Zinjaneh Rud, 5 miles below Zinjan
(Schindler.)
KIZIL.—
A district and torrent between Bishkan and Aghdagh m_ Bajlan.
Included in the winter quarters of Safar Khan Sultan NairzhI Guran. The
stream is dry in summer.— (Soane, 1912).
KIZIL BASH—
The general name given to a powerful combination of 32 Turkish tribes
to break whose power the Shahsavan tribe was started by Shah ’Abbas
I in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The most important
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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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