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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [190v] (385/706)
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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KftH-I-BA—KUH-I BI
KtfH-I-BANlN—
A plain or plateau, and village east-south-east of Yazd, and north-west
of Kirman, on the boundary between them. The first has an area of perhaps
a dozen square miles, backed by a semi-circle of hills, and green with orchards
and fields and extensively interspersed with white patches of salt. Five
villages stand in the plain, Kuh Banan itself being the chief ; they are well
watered and cultivate more poppy than wheat.
The village Kuh Banan is embosomed in mulberry trees, and maintains
a small manufacture of silk. On the spur of the hill above the village are the
remains of an old fort, and a little lower, a mile from the village, stands a
platform of hewn stones, with two low towers above it, called the throne
of Latif Shah. The latter was a governor of the district, who was slain by
the Afghans under Ashraf and Mahmud, when, they sacked the district. In
the middle of the plateau are found beds of “ kankar,” or nodular lime
stone. The present (1882) governor of Kuh Banan is an official from Teh
ran.— {Stack.) .
KUH-I-BANDOMAB—
(Corrupted from Band-i-Amir). A hill to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan
road, has its name from the village Bandomar {q. v. .)— {Schindler).
KtfH-I-BANOBAR—
A mountain 22 miles south-west of Damghan, forming the eastern exten
sion of the Kuh-i-Sultan Shah Rukh {q. v.). — {Schindler.)
KUH-I-BARZGHALLEH—
A range of hills 12 miles to the south of the Isfahan-Burujird road, striking
north-west to south-east; its south-eastern end is called the Kuh-i-Surkh,
which, again, where it is crossed by the Isfahan-Shushtar road is called
Kuh-i-Gav-i-Piseh.— {Schindler).
KUH-I-BIBARAN—
A mountain about 6,500' high, north of Bibaran, 96 miles from Tehran on
the road to Hamadan.— {Schindler).
KGH-I-BIBl SHAHRBANU—
A mountain a few miles south of Tehran. Bibi Shahrbanu was the daugh
ter of Yazdajird, the last Sassanian King, was captured, converted to Islam,
married to Imam Husain (grandson of Muhammad the prophet) and was
buried on the southern slope of this Mountain.— {Schindler, 1910).
K0H-I-BISHKAN—
The Bishkan range of mountains which is at 2 farsakhs from Qasr-i-Shirm
runs towards Sar-i-pul-i-Zuhab and at | farsakh from the plain of Zuhab
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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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