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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [191v] (387/706)
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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KUH-I-CH—KUH-I-DU
KUH-I-CHAL-I-SHUTUR—
A mountain in the Chahar Mahal district, 57 miles west-south-west of
Isfahan. The Ab-i-Bashtabad, one of the head-waters of the Karun rises
on it.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-CHAM-I-GARAN—
The local name for a portion of the Zagros range enclosing the vallev of
Cham-i-Garan, situated on the western side of the Garan pass in western
Kurdistan.— (T. C. Ploxvden).
KGH-I-CHARAHAN—
Some hills in the Kazvin province, east of Manjil.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-CHEHIL—
A high range of mountains seen to the left of the road, about 50 miles
f rom Burujird, on the road to Isfahan.— (Schindler).
—UH-I-CHEHIL CHASHMEII—(Mountain of the forty springs).
A high mountain in the Khurkhurreh hululc of Kurdistan. The Jaghatu
rises in it.—(1902).
KUH-I-CHEHAL GAZ—
A hill at the southern end of the Silakhur plain, to the right of the road
from Burbarud to Burujird.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-CHEHIL VA YAK TAN (the hill of the 41 bodies)—
A peak north of Deh Namak, about 90 miles from Tehran, to the left of
the road to Meshed.— (Schindler).
KGH-I-DAR-BALA—
A continuation of the Kuh-i-Khak-i-Sari towards the west.
KtH-I-DASHTARAN—
A mountain four farsakhs north of Qusheh in the Damghan district, with
a lead mine.— (Schindler).
KGH-I-DEH-I-MtlM—
Another name of the Kuh-i-Pishambadi— (Schindler).
KUH-I-DEH-I-SURKHl—
A mountain north of Nihavand on the right side of the Gamasu river
(Schindler).
KGH-I-DEHLAQ—
A mountain north of Nihavand on the left of the Gamasu river. (Schind
ler).
KtjH-I-DUNUSHKI—{Sometimes DANAWISHK).
A mountain in Kirmanshah terminating the Kifraur valley to the north
west. It is a rounded hill with easy slopes on the eastern side and it throws
out a rounded ridge to the south which connects it with the Kaluj ran<m
bounding the valley in that direction. The stream down the Kifraur valley
from Gauar and that from Tirau meet in this ridge on a deep rift and the
united waters flow on into the Dehira Direh valley and thence on towards
bar-i-Pul. The hill is bare of trees. A road from Kifraur to Kaleh Shahln
runs noPh of it.— (Vaughan.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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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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