'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [191r] (386/706)
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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changes its name into Guer Osman. At the foot of this mountain is the
plain of Zuhab. The mountain extends to the stream Tang-i-Hamman,
changes its name into Karavie and ends near Milleh Y aqub. The river
Holvan separates this mountain from Milleh Y’aqub. {Leleux, Rabino,
1909).
KGH-I-BlSITUN—(KtJH-I-PARAU)
A mountain forming the south-western boundary of the Julga-i-bmneh
in Kirmanshah, behind BIsitun.— (Rozario).
KUH-I-BULOR— , . , , .
A range of hills south of Astaneh. The hills join together m the form of
a horseshoe, the Kuh-i-Bulur forms the bend, the Kuh-i-Siah the western
the Kuh-i-Shir Hard the eastern (Schindler).
KUH-I-BUNEH—
A mountain, a couple of miles south-east of Daulatabad Malayar. It is
also called Garma Kuh.— (Schindler).
KtH-I-BURANDASHT— _
One of the western spurs of the Kharzan Kuh north-west of Kazvin
and to the left of the road thence to Rasht, about 4 or 5 miles from Mazrah.—
(Schindler).
KUH-I-BUZAP— j _
A snow covered mountain forming the northern boundary of the Julga-
i-Sinneh in Kirmanshah.— (Rozario).
KUH-I-BUZGUSH— 5 L
A range of hills forming the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
between the Garmrud and the
Sarab districts of Azarbaijan, about 20 miles to the right of the road be
tween Turkmanchai and Haji Agha.— (Schindler).
KtH-I-CHAH-I-SHIRTN—
A mountain bounding the Samnan valley on the south-east and sepa
rating it from the Kavir. It derives its name from the fact that it possesses
fresh water.— (Rozario).
KUH-I-CHAI— , , o .
A mountain forming the north-west boundary of the Samnan valley.
It derives its name from a stream flowing to Samnan— (Rozario).
KUH-I-CHAKl barang—
A range of hills to the south of Khur. A spur of this ronge is crossed
on the road from Khur to Tabas.— (MacGregor.)
KUH-I-CHALAVER—
A range of hills, bounding the Faridan district on the south. At its northern
end is a peak, called Kulah-i-Qazi, west of Milagird. (Schindler).
KtlH-I-CHAL-I-KHUK—
A range of hills in southern Silakhur.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-CHAL-I-NAMAD—
A mountain on the frontier between the Isfahan and Arabistan provinces.
To the south of it is the Kuh-i-Lul and between the two, runs the Ab-i-
Bashtabad by the Tang-i-Darkash-Varkash.—(ScAindZer).
C300GSB
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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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