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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [189r] (382/706)
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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KOH—KUC
365
KOHUN—See KUHAN—
A large and prosperona village, 31 miles from Isfahan on the road to Sul-
tanabad.— (Preece, 1893).
KOKAH (1)—
One of a group of villages Navru Safalzon, Garget, Zarangun, Saravir,
Ravat-i-Malik, Gulpaigan and Asfarungun immediately to the north-east
of Gulpaigan on the left of the road to Sultanabad. A well cultivated
and watered valley. There is a good “ Kaleh ” outside the village to the
west. Road to Khumain passess over the top of a hill on which there is
an old runied fort and spring, after which over a range of hills gradually
descending to that village, it is good and broad all the way. Peasant pro
prietors own the village, which is watered by two Jcandts, also by leads
from the river ; 239,200 lbs. of grain are sown yearly ; there are 20 jarlbs
of vineyards. The village is divided into two parishes, each of 250
houses; total population 1,750. Taxes 300 tumdns and 50,000 lbs. of
grain. There are 80 plough oxen, and 100 karbds looms.— (Coningham—
Preece.)
KOKAH (2)—
An old name for Gulpaigan.— (q. v.)
KORASVAN—
A large village in Azarbaijan, about 50 miles south of Tabriz— {Ger
ard.)
KOTUR— See QUTUR.
KUCHANLl—
A village in Azarbaijan, nine miles south of Tabriz.— {Gerard.)
KUCH-I-ISFAHAN— 1
A village in Gilan between Rasht and the Safid Rud river. The houses
are scattered through the forests ; the bazaar, consisting of two small rows
of shops, lies on each side of the road and is open on Sundays and Wed
nesdays.— {Holmes).
KUCHIL—
A tiny hamlet close to Maibud.— {Sykes.)
KUCHIMI—Kalhur, Kirmanshah.
A village in the Mahidasht plain.— {Rabino.)
KUCHIMI—Kalhurs.
A branch of the Kalhur tribe, numbering 200 families of nomads and
rayats. Their chief is Shahbaz Khan. Their Garmsirs are in Gilan, and
their Sardslrs near Harunabad. Together with the Kolajubi they furnish
1 company to the Kalhur regiment.
Mr. Leleux says : Chief Mahmud Khan, brother-in-law of Daud Khan
Khamman. 200 families, sendentary at Chiajingeh, 4 farsakhs from Har
unabad).— {Rabino, 1907.)
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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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